Cass Sunstein (Cass Robert Sunstein) Quotes

Most problems are best solved privately, not through government. There's a problem of discourtesy in the world, which is best handled through social norms, which are indispensable. But you wouldn't want the government to be mandating courtesy.

Cass Sunstein

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• We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

  

  Warren Weaver
  • Science
  • Ignorance
  • View

• We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Night
  • Practice
  • Starts

• I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Looking
  • Against
  • Phone

• My mom is many times responsible for getting us all together, but we trade off at each other's houses. My brother and I are actors and are traveling a lot of our job.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Job
  • Together
  • Mom

• Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.

  

  Victoria Billings
  • Fine
  • Twins
  • Togetherness

• My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • People
  • Mother
  • Education

• So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Know
  • Price
  • Late

• The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Down
  • Heroes
  • Resistance

• The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?

  

  Imran Khan
  • Time
  • Children
  • War

• The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Trying
  • Voice
  • Guitar

• There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Good
  • Great
  • Bad

• I need to be looked after. I'm not talking about diamond rings and nice restaurants and fancy stuff – in fact, that makes me uncomfortable. I didn't grow up with it, and it's not me, you know. But I need someone to say to me, 'Shall I run you a bath?' or 'Let's go to the pub, just us.'

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Nice
  • Fact
  • Diamond

• Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Good
  • English
  • Educated

• Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature

• How completely, how thoroughly he has stolen my child. I have never even tried to forgive him.

  

  Octavia E. Butler

• When you're tied to one show, you are very much at the mercy of the writers, so you can suddenly get a script where you have a heart attack and die.

  

  Alan Dale
  • Heart
  • Die
  • Mercy

• You don't need most beauty products. They're an emotional purchase. That's why the conversations are really important. What choice do you have but to ask your customer what they want?

  

  Emily Weiss
  • Important
  • Why
  • Emotional

• There are a lot of writers who just want to do their own thing and avoid the rest of the Marvel Universe. But for me that was one of the things I loved about Marvel: that shared universe. So of course you would run into a mutant in Manhattan. You would run into another hero in Manhattan. For me, I figured why not? Why not have that fun?

  

  Ann Nocenti
  • Why
  • Fun
  • Universe

• The Bolsheviks did not seize power; they picked it up.

  

  Adam Ulam
  • Power
  • Seize
  • Bolsheviks

• My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning.

  

  Clarice Lispector
  • Life
  • Single

• The new, old, and constantly changing language of politics is a lexicon of conflict and drama?ridicule and reproach?pleading and persuasion.

  

  William Lewis Safir
  • Language
  • Drama
  • Conflict

• We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists.

  

  Eddie Obeng
  • Time
  • World
  • Understand

• Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private.

  

  Craig Brown
  • World

• Most problems are best solved privately, not through government. There's a problem of discourtesy in the world, which is best handled through social norms, which are indispensable. But you wouldn't want the government to be mandating courtesy.

  

  Cass Sunstein
  • World
  • Problem
  • Courtesy