Daniel Gilbert Quotes
The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a lot of money can buy you a little more happiness. But in both cases, money does it.
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Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
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It was in 1969, and I thought, wow, you know, I really didn't want to do a TV series. You know, I had my own act, and I was performing in Vegas and doing all of these exciting things.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.
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Most men are fragile.
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Every actor has their own process. For me, I really need to stay in the pocket. So, if I'm on set and I'm in character, I'm not thinking like a producer. If I'm on set and I'm not in character, wardrobe and make-up, and I'm just coming on set for the moments that I'm not shooting, then I'm able to be the producer.
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Politics is the womb in which war develops.
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Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
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The Strokes are one of my favorite bands... And there's this band called Future Islands that I love.
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
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At its worst, Washington is a place where name-calling partisan politics too often trumps policy.
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I've always felt like the reason I became an actor is because I look for more high drama than what I had at home.
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Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.
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I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.
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I'll give you a list of a hundred ways that I'm more likely to be injured than belting around a race track with people who know what they're doing. It's not a place where I feel I'm in unnecessary danger.
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The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a lot of money can buy you a little more happiness. But in both cases, money does it.
