Daniel Gilbert Quotes
The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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I'm happy to sacrifice a big pay cheque for my happiness, if that's not too corny a thing to say. It's probably more naive than mature to say that, maybe, but that's how I feel.
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.
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I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it.
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I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.
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Altruism raises your mood because it raises your self-esteem, which increases happiness. Plus, giving to others gets you outside of yourself and distracts you from your problems.
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I don't like celebrities; I don't hang out with them; I don't relate to that life.
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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
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Growing up, there were no families on TV that looked like mine.
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I like a sort of androgynous look, but I also love feminine shapes.
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Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
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Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesn't have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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I have a lot of vinyl, but I only buy old records on vinyl. Like secondhand. It's too expensive otherwise.
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I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.
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I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him.
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I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
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All the women want to be with me, all the men want to be like me.
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I do not need any cheerleaders at my moot court. And I cannot imagine walking into that Court without the preparation of a few vicious moot courts; it is critical to the development of my thinking.
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Doing 'Malcolm and Eddie' was probably the foremost miserable years of my life.
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So the idea that you could put Kurds, Shiite Arabs, and Sunni Arabs in a nice, liberal, federal system in Iraq in a short amount of time, six months or a year, boggles the mind.
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Many nights he lay there dreaming awake of secret cafes in Mont Marte, where ivory women delved in romantic mysteries with diplomats and soldiers of fortune, while orchestras played Hungarian waltzes and the air was thick and exotic with intrigue and moonlight and adventure.
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The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.
