Amos Tversky Quotes
It's frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people who have faith that they know exactly what is going on.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.
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While immensely beneficial to Seoul, is this U.S. guarantee to fight Korean War II, 64 years after the first, wise? Russia, China and Japan retain the freedom to decide whether and how to react, should war break out. Why do we not?
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.
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I can laugh and cry at the drop of a freakin' hat - all at the same time.
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One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.
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A number of people in the United States, almost everyone, is using plastic cards to pay for things, but it's extremely difficult to accept these cards. So let's make it's easy and take more and more of the friction out as we can.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.
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I don't think you should have everybody's information from their bank. There should be some process: accusations and proof that you've committed a crime.
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I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults.
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I have no taste for corruptible food nor for the pleasures of this life. I desire the Bread of God, which is the Flesh of Jesus Christ, who was of the seed of David, and for drink I desire His Blood, which is love incorruptible.
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With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women stars have a narcissist complex.
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I get told all the time that I'm a fashion icon now, but I don't really know what that means. I just get dressed.
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I am definitely a dog person. I feel like Webster and I are very much alike.
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With our free agents, we think we have the best place for them.
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People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.
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I tell people, if you really want me to look that good, why don't you cough up about $2 million more and hire Alec or Billy? If you want me to do it, this is what you get.
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It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.
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It's frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people who have faith that they know exactly what is going on.
