Ed Diener Quotes
It appears that the way people perceive the world is much more important to happiness than objective circumstances.
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I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
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I'm mostly vegetarian.
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I had no idea about nutrition. I thought by eating salads you'll stay skinny.
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I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.
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The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.
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I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and happy and more liberated than I have ever been.
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Usually Mexico, or always Mexico has defended itself and its territory.
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I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.
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He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
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The most important thing is to enjoy yourself and have a good time.
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Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my goal.
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What women care about are jobs, the economy, the unemployment rate.
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I'm a human, and I'm multidimensional. If I was the perfect form of anything, I'd be boring. If I was a free spirit all the time, I would be boring; I would lack depth. If I was dark and enigmatic all the time, then I would lack relatability.
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I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.
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I've been a free man.
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Modern man may assert that he can dispense with them, and he may bolster his opinion by insisting that there is no scientific evidence of their truth. But since we are dealing with invisible and unknowable things (for God is beyond human understanding, and there is no mean of proving immortality), why should we bother with evidence?
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I have that weakness. I think women are one of the most beautiful creations that could be given by nature, by God.
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I work out all the time, but because it's good for my mental state.
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I literally coded Facebook in my dorm room and launched it from my dorm room. I rented a server for $85 a month, and I funded it by putting an ad on the side, and we've funded ever since by putting ads on the side.
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I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.
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I've just seen it on TV and in pictures.
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It's important for an actor to feel like they're really being watched and to receive feedback and encouragement about the aspects of what they're doing that feels truthful - and also to raise awareness when they might be resorting to habits and tricks, which every actor has.
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It appears that the way people perceive the world is much more important to happiness than objective circumstances.
