Craig Detweiler Quotes
What is the danger in the personalization era? Psychologists call it confirmation bias—“a tendency to believe things that reinforce our existing views, to see what we want to see.” What happens when we encounter new information that contradicts our beliefs? Researchers at Stanford monitored subjects’ brain activity to trace how they responded to cognitive dissonance. Democracy is endangered when we only listen to people we agree with.Craig Detweiler
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I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.
Mackenzie Crook -
Porridge and the urban lifestyle don't mix well.
Fergus Henderson -
In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
Kangana Ranaut -
I'm usually listening to Sirius Satellite in the morning. 'The Heat' usually plays good music.
LaMarr Woodley -
When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth.
Patricia Cornwell
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I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.
Fiona Apple -
Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.
Sally Ride -
I'm not sure the least educated members of the population are missing out on the advances in medical technology as much as they are adopting harmful behavioral habits that shorten their life.
S. Jay Olshansky -
You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.
Fiona Apple -
I was thinking 'Love Story', obviously, was a romantic film of that time.
Felicity Jones -
I really loved the 'Sopranos' but didn't have HBO. So someone would send me tapes of the show with three or four episodes. I would watch one episode and go: 'Oh my God, I've got to watch one more.' I'd watch the whole tape and champ at the bit for the next one.
Ted Sarandos
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A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.
Abbie Hoffman -
No healthy man, in his secret heart, is content with his destiny. He is tortured by dreams and images as a child is tortured by the thought of a state of existence in which it would live in a candy store and have two stomachs.
H. L. Mencken -
I'm not picking up dog shit. I'm a rock star.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.
Adrian Edmondson -
I'm pretty relaxed with my skincare. I really like two brands: Tata Harper and Ren, which is a natural skincare line. I use lotions, and I use Dove soap.
Amanda Hearst -
I do not say anything from jealousy.
Anna Held
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Billy not only had a distinguished career in the Legislature, but he also has great business instincts and has done exceedingly well making investment decisions in both stocks and private ventures such as real estate.
Christie Hefner -
There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real.
James Salter -
So long as procreation stems from parents of the same race, appearance and lineage are typically congruent. Interracial unions give rise to added complexity. Interracial amalgamation will produce some individuals whose features diverge from those commonly ascribed to the races of their ancestors.
Randall Kennedy -
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
Florence Nightingale -
An American parliamentary system with proportional representation wouldn't immediately or inexorably lead to a flourishing social democracy, but it would at least correct the overrepresentation of an ideological minority and cut down on intentional tactical economic sabotage.
Alex Pareene -
What is the danger in the personalization era? Psychologists call it confirmation bias—“a tendency to believe things that reinforce our existing views, to see what we want to see.” What happens when we encounter new information that contradicts our beliefs? Researchers at Stanford monitored subjects’ brain activity to trace how they responded to cognitive dissonance. Democracy is endangered when we only listen to people we agree with.
Craig Detweiler