Arnold Kling Quotes
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I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.
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Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.
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Socialism requires that government becomes your god.
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What's become a big theme in my music is my dad as a narrative character. I never had the opportunity to understand our relationship in a more adult capacity. The unknown is great material for any creative outlet.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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I'm very physical. I love to work out; I'm very athletic. It's a great therapy, not only for my body, but for my mind.
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Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.
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A novel - it's also a way of attacking subjects that you cannot confront in the eye.
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I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.
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I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.
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But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.
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You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.
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My wife is pretty geeky and will occasionally quote 'Anchorman' at me.
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Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So I'm still useful, you see.
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We're here to win. We're not here just for the experience.
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There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.
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A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.
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I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.
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I have been dairy free for several years, and I started because I felt it was going to reduce my allergies, which it did, and help me lose weight, which it did.
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If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.
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Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.
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The number one priority in life is to take care of yourself and make sure you're happy.
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The most violent and troubling stories become part of our national consciousness about foster care.
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The only person you are qualified to pronounce unreasonable is yourself.
