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 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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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.
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The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.
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We do not require elaborate training merely in order to refrain from embarking upon intricate trains of inference. Such abstinence is only too easy.
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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
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Even prior to marriage and motherhood, it's always been about prioritising and focusing on what you can commit to. That's been my approach to every aspect of my life, be it my relationships or my professional commitments.
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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.
