Cass Sunstein (Cass Robert Sunstein) Quotes

My own view is that institutions are a glory, and for all their imperfections, something really to be proud of. It is true that things can be a lot better than they are. It's okay to emphasize that.

Cass Sunstein

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• Imperfection

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• I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don't live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Lost
  • Story
  • Difficult

• Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Friendship
  • Most
  • Liking

• And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Great
  • Pretty
  • Fear

• I, for one, believe that partisanship should have nothing to do with the actions of Christ. You're either Christlike, or you're not.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Believe
  • You
  • Actions

• When things are scary, or there's a struggle, I always think, 'How is this going to sound in my biography?' Sometimes I would just be living on protein shakes or the cheapest food that I could afford because I didn't have a lot of money.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Money
  • Food
  • Struggle

• I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Believe
  • America

• Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Like
  • Prince
  • Beatles

• And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • Work
  • Government
  • New

• My best asset is my brain. Without my brain, I don't think the rest of me would be too hot.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Me
  • Best
  • Rest

• I suppose I would be a logical choice to play the Doctor just because Giles, my character in Buffy, has the same light and dark sides and quirkiness as Doctor Who.

  

  Anthony Head
  • Character
  • Light
  • Dark

• I will find you there where our low life heightens, Where the door of the Wonder again unbars, Where the old love lures and the old fire whitens, In the Stars behind the stars.

  

  Edwin Markham
  • Life
  • Wonder
  • Fire

• We live in this thought web; we identify things and put them away and distance ourselves from them. But to be completely present? That is source, that is art, that is spirituality. And meditation is a way to defy fear and experience that source.

  

  Ben Foster
  • Live
  • Art
  • Experience

• I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be interesting to see that black evil come out of my soul.

  

  Kyle MacLachlan
  • Soul
  • Black
  • Interesting

• If nothing else, I have money.

  

  Bjork
  • Money

• All these years, I found that being a good wife for Jeb is my most important role, no doubt.

  

  Columba Bush
  • Good
  • Important
  • Wife

• I did have reconstructive plastic surgery and a tummy tuck. And from hip to hip, there's a very big scar. It looks better than it did... So I say, if you don't like that skin, have it removed. This is my advice: if you're gonna do it - just go for it.

  

  Carnie Wilson Wilson Phillips
  • Advice

• We must take the world as it is and not as we would like it to be.

  

  Maurice Allais
  • World

• I think it was very important for me to look at starting to build a safety net so that I didn't feel the insecurity of the ups and downs of finances because I might do no film a year, or I might do six commercials, or I might do none.

  

  Priyanka Chopra
  • Important
  • Safety
  • Insecurity

• I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Judge
  • Outspoken

• We're living at this funny time, where we're all urged to express ourselves as unique individuals, but on the other hand, we share a limited set of tools for doing that. It's easy to feel like nothing more than the sum of your consumer choices.

  

  Alexandra Kleeman
  • Time
  • Funny
  • Hand

• It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Difficult
  • Oneself
  • Easy Paint

• I don't cover my face because I want to show my identity.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Want
  • Identity
  • Face

• My own view is that institutions are a glory, and for all their imperfections, something really to be proud of. It is true that things can be a lot better than they are. It's okay to emphasize that.

  

  Cass Sunstein
  • Proud
  • Glory
  • Imperfection