Jordan Peterson (Jordan Bernt Peterson) Quotes
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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Parents, teachers, and other school staff need the tools to help these young people early in their lives. And the earlier, the better. It is proven that early action prevents problems later in life.
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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If I did a talk show, this would allow me to speak on what's happening at that moment. I can be current, and I get to flex my stand-up muscle but stay at home without doing the traveling.
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The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
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If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
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But the working I would always want to do.
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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
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Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.
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I had a vision - and I saw white spirits and black spirits engaged in battle, and the sun was darkened - the thunder rolled in the Heavens, and blood flowed in streams - and I heard a voice saying, 'Such is your luck, such are you called to see, and let it come rough or smooth, you must surely bear it.'
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People think that young people don't care about things, but I think they do care; they just aren't super interested in conforming to what older people think are the right way to do things.
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A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
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I've got no interest in football. My brother's a footballer, too, and I was dragged to the freezing pitch every week as a child. I don't see much glamour in it.
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Chelsea have made a good investment for me, but I did not put any pressure on them.
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The little kids in the stands are going to give you a good cheer. Sometimes, that overrides the other people.
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I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less sure about what is good. There's sort of good, good enough, could be better - but absolute good is a little harder to define.
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I'm in the middle of a 25-city book tour, and I like watching what people buy in bookstores. I see people buy books that I strongly suspect they will never read, and as an author, I must tell you, I don't mind this one bit. We buy books aspirationally.
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You bird-brained baby. I ain't called anybody baby since Birdman; unless you're a swallow.
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The European Union should not be prescribing an identity. We know what that's like, when a government tells its people how it should look; what it should be doing. That's the first step towards totalitarianism.
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I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.
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The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation.
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I think people do work too much. I've never been able to understand the whole 'make hay while the sun shines' thing. Either I want to work or I don't want to work.
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Pain is the only thing that people will never deny.
