Alex Pentland Quotes

We are now coming to realize that human behavior is determined as much by social context as by rational thinking.

Alex Pentland

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• California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • California
  • Environmental

• When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Good
  • Why
  • Pretty

• My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Family
  • Pretty
  • Dad

• See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • See
  • Surprise
  • Awards

• I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Night
  • Dad
  • Day

• My deceased grandmother on my mom's side was a real fairy godmother, who lived to be 102 and who I always feel is looking after me.

  

  Victoria Clark
  • Real
  • Me
  • Mom

• I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • History
  • Never
  • Dramatic

• One of my biggest inspirations growing up was Whitney Houston, so I was devastated to hear about her passing. I'm from East Orange, New Jersey, and started singing at New Hope Baptist Church, so she was like my fellow Jersey girl.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • Hope
  • Church
  • Singing

• When I first moved to New York, all I did was musical theater. That's what I studied at Carnegie Mellon University.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • First
  • New
  • New York

• If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.

  

  Ralph Kiner
  • Today
  • Alive
  • Spinning

• I am the only person still alive of that rescuing group but I want everyone to know that, while I was coordinating our efforts, we were about twenty to twenty five people. I did not do it alone.

  

  Irena Sendler
  • People
  • Alone

• He Brendan Bracken had been upset by my observation that a wartime Minister of Information was compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of duplicity that even his natural hair must grow to resemble a wig.

  

  Claud Cockburn
  • Hair

• The best ally you can have in breaking up a street fight is a grandmother.

  

  Joe Bob Briggs
  • Up
  • Grandmother

• I was fascinated by what motivates men and women to fight for what they believe in.

  

  Matthew Heineman
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

• I am not saying that the Renaissance in any way was a feminist movement - hardly. But the arts flourished, and in more social settings as opposed to being confined to the church.

  

  Kathryn Lasky
  • Church
  • Feminist

• I knew what my times were and how my practices were progressing and how close I was to the goals I had set for the year. I swam hard. I always swam hard. If I didn't, I knew I would pay for it either the next day or the next meet.

  

  Debbie Meyer
  • Goals

• For me, you can't be a big fat pig up there, slovenly and singing croaky and whatnot. You have to work.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • Up
  • Work
  • Singing

• Let's admit it; the only use for complaining is to make people laugh.

  

  Amity Gaige
  • People
  • Complaining

• There's some songs you can cover, and I've covered and butchered a few, but you can't do them all.

  

  Rick Astley
  • Song
  • Some
  • Cover

• Over the years, I've loved being on stage with an orchestra, waving my hands around.

  

  Anthony Daniels
  • Years
  • Hands
  • Stage

• I always used to pretend to be different characters - cowboys, that sort of thing. I used to think that the Indians lived over the mountains that I could see out of my bedroom. As I grew up, I started to understand that acting was actually a craft, and there was no question about it, that was exactly what I was going to do.

  

  Aneurin Barnard
  • Up
  • Different
  • Question

• You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it.

  

  Buddy Hackett
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Boy

• Nearly all trouble comes from mis-timing.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Trouble
  • Timing

• We are now coming to realize that human behavior is determined as much by social context as by rational thinking.

  

  Alex Pentland
  • Thinking
  • Behavior
  • Context