Ellen Langer Quotes
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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Porridge and the urban lifestyle don't mix well.
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Women become the objects of rules; they are repressed and lose their rights in the name of religion, or they lose their freedom in the name of tradition, while the state legitimates this foolishness with laws.
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It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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I came into politics by accident. I may go out of politics by accident.
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He was so excited. He cut out pictures of these landscapes and neighborhoods and kind of really tried to give you a feel of the movie. It was kind of cute but at the same time it really showed his enthusiasm for it.
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So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the people that put on the Dupont show, like maybe my artistic effort is going to be a little different.
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I used to be a huge fan of 'Lockup' on MSNBC, and that certainly has helped with my understanding of the world.
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I don't accept any money, free products, or anything else of value from the companies whose products I cover or from their public relations or advertising agencies.
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There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
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I think we're going to have some difficulty in front of us. I have absolutely no doubt the next three, four years Europe are going to be at best stagnation. We are preparing for tough times.
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If you haven't understood the world you're living in, it's impossible to think that the solution you're coming up with fits.
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If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.
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I liked St. Louis, when they were in the American League, because that was going home. I had all my family and friends there.
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All the music that I play today, I actually heard either at home or in my neighborhood when I was growing up in the '40s and '50s.
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It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds. They did terrible things to themselves.
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For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.
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I am a rereader. Quality is variety if you wait long enough. Barthes, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Celine, Duras, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Melville: There is so much to revisit. 'Ingrid Caven,' by Jean-Jacques Schuhl, is always in rotation. I used to read 'Morvern Callar,' by Alan Warner, every year - I adored that book.
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Lifespan extension has never really been a goal of aging science, nor should it.
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I think we are part of the earth. The concept of the rainforest being the womb of life is something I believe in...the value system must get back to the environment as it was originally, the magnificence from where we emerged.
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At the end of the day, it just means curvy. That's why I think the word plus-size in the industry is very different from people's mind view of what 'plus-size' really should mean.
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One of the great rules of design is do something basic right. Then everything gets much more right of itself. But if you do something basic wrong - if you make what I call a Type 1 Error - you can get nothing else right.
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The rules you were given were the rules that worked for the person who created them.
