Ed Diener Quotes
Being too happy is bad for you. 8 on 1 10-scale is just right. Eg. cancer patients are more likely to survive if they're at an 8 instead of 9 or 10.
Quotes to Explore
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The circus allows one to be logical and unreal at the same time. In the circus, all is possible: there can be a man with two heads or a character with a green face.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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Court TV will always hold a special place in my heart, and I will always look back at my time there with great gratitude and affection.
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I never go on a run when I don't think of my dad, where I don't think about how powerful his legs were and what happened because, unfortunately, he didn't take care of himself.
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It's time to re-think charity. It's time to give charity the big-league freedoms we really give to business. The fight for these freedoms must be our new cause, because without them, all of our causes are ultimately lost.
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I'm easy to hate. I get it.
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Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many scholars believe his work intentionally provides clues to a powerful secret... a secret that remains protected to this day by a clandestine brotherhood of which Da Vinci was a member.
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Everybody grows but me.
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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.
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To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
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I like to be quiet, and let people find me rather than having to shout at them.
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Well I forgot how different it was because I've been here for about four or five years. It's a big load off my shoulders now. Now that I'm there, I'm like, man, I can breathe a little bit, you know?
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When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine that he is polite all the time.
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In England or America, actors do not have to cater to an image. In India, it is almost demanded of us. Very seldom do you get a film where you can walk away from your image.
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Call it the Tiger Mom effect: In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option.
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I have no sense of myself as a sex symbol at all. But the meaning of sex symbol might be a little different in Japan to elsewhere. The Japanese version seems to come with a stronger emphasis on a sort of grownup or mature male charm. And if that's the case, then I guess I'm happy to hear it.
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Like working families all across the state, we must find a way to make government live within its means.
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...if the music stops and there's only the sound of the rainAll the hope and glory - All the sacrifice in vain(And) If love remains, though everything is lostWe will pay the price, but we will not count the cost - Bravado (1991)
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Being too happy is bad for you. 8 on 1 10-scale is just right. Eg. cancer patients are more likely to survive if they're at an 8 instead of 9 or 10.
