Jonathan Haidt Quotes
We humans are really good at forming groups to compete, and then dissolving the groups and reforming them along different lines to compete in a different way.

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A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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What really matters is what's on the inside.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained.
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I love anything to do with history.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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The game has given me so much, and I tried to give so much back to the people who have showed me so much love day after day.
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I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
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The European Union will continue to fully support multilateral global governance based on international law, human rights, and strong international institutions.
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I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.
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In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One.
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Because Republicans have no ideas, they want to turn elections into the battle of dollars.
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One of my earliest memories was when I was three, going to this full-length mirror in my parents' bathroom and saying into the mirror, 'You are going to be an actress.'
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To me, the most important thing is to tell a good story. If I can do that, I think that enlightenment, respect of nature, etc. follows.
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D.C. fans, I think, are so good. They just come up to me, and they're so nice and so polite and just, 'Hey, I hope you have a great career,' and 'How are you doing, everything's good?' That's pretty much where they leave it at.
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For years, I've written narrators who aren't gender-identified. When I do autobiographical stuff, that's different, obviously. But I've always tried to keep my songs as potentially not a man's thing.
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We humans are really good at forming groups to compete, and then dissolving the groups and reforming them along different lines to compete in a different way.