Daniel Gilbert Quotes
Your emotions are meant to fluctuate, just like your blood pressure is meant to fluctuate. It's a system that's supposed to move back and forth, between happy and unhappy. That's how the system guides you through the world.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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Yes, we've still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.
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I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.
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He's just a good kid. I didn't understand half the things he was telling me, but it was fun.
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I haven't gotten to do the leading man thing, so I would love to do that!
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The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.
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We should find inspiration in the senses that already exist and try to copy them and apply them to us. If we compare our senses to the senses of other animals and species that we don't have, we can get ideas for new abilities that we can adapt to humans by applying cybernetics to the body.
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Your emotions are meant to fluctuate, just like your blood pressure is meant to fluctuate. It's a system that's supposed to move back and forth, between happy and unhappy. That's how the system guides you through the world.
