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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I feel no compulsion to be a pundit. As a matter of fact, I really don't have that much to say about most things. Working with hard news satisfies me completely.
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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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She's not even referred to until her husband's death in 1903. And even then it's only as 'Mrs. William Dewey.
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They say everyone needs something to love.
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A system is a network of interdependent components that work together to try to accomplish the aim of the system. A system must have an aim. Without the aim, there is no system.
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Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.
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It appears that the way people perceive the world is much more important to happiness than objective circumstances.
