Amos Tversky Quotes
“Happy species endowed with infinite appreciation of pleasures and low sensitivity to pain would probably not survive the evolutionary battle”Amos Tversky
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The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
Vanessa Redgrave -
I don't want to fight anybody that just wants to hold you and try and eat the time.
Rafael dos Anjos -
The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.
J. William Fulbright -
The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
Sallust -
I have made this one dish, a salted caramel chocolate ganache tart. It's so rich. You can only have a few bites!
Ed Oxenbould -
The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
Karin Slaughter
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You have to be reasonable with yourself and not feel guilty when things aren't perfect.
Jaclyn Smith -
When it comes to remaking my own films in the English language, I can only imagine that it is a very boring process, I wouldn't ever dream of it.
Park Chan-wook -
I love westerns. I've always wanted to do a western.
Patrick Warburton -
As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.
Aaron Koblin -
I just do my job and go home. There's just one or two people I can say are friends that I can call.
Nargis Fakhri -
Acting is what I love to do. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I don't think of it as work. It's really fun for me.
Dakota Fanning
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Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.
Dag Hammarskjold -
And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.
P. G. Wodehouse -
The man responsible for keeping Americans safe from another terrorist attack on American soil for nearly seven years now will go down in history as one of America's greatest presidents.
Ann Coulter -
But when it comes to writing the thing that I've sort of been thinking about lately, is why? You know, is it rational? Is it logical that anybody should be expected to be afraid of the work that they feel they were put on this Earth to do.
Elizabeth Gilbert -
Your immune cells are like a circulating nervous system. Your nervous system in fact is a circulating nervous system. It thinks. It's conscious.
Deepak Chopra -
Nothing will work unless you do.
Maya Angelou
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Knowledge comes from the past, so it's safe. It is also out of date. It's the opposite of originality... Experience is the opposite of being creative.
Paul Arden -
I like to be in pain when I'm getting massaged. That way I know I'm getting my money's worth.
Alison Brie -
I left the Middle West for Schenectady because the General Electric Company offered me a more congenial, better paying job than did anyone else.
Kurt Vonnegut -
No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.
John Selden -
You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change. He told me that. No eye is on the sparrow but he did tell me that.
Joan Didion -
“Happy species endowed with infinite appreciation of pleasures and low sensitivity to pain would probably not survive the evolutionary battle”
Amos Tversky