Gerd Gigerenzer Quotes
Cognition requires going beyond the information given, to make bets and therefore to risk errors.
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May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
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I watch my films with my mum and other family members, you know. I also know there are thousands of women who watch my films. I don't want to set wrong examples.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.
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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
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In '87, I was about 9 years old, and so at that point I was wearing, like, fluorescent green T-shirts and acid-wash jeans and leg warmers, and my hair was in a ponytail with a scrunchie and I had the teased bangs that were up in a rainbow shape. It was crazy.
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I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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I've been in a room in Silicon Valley where on the wall they have 160 industries they think blockchain can disrupt. We picked six of them to focus on.
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The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.
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I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.
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America did not invade Iraq because Iraqis are Muslims. Oil, money, economic interests. Who knows? But it was not because Iraqis are Muslims.
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Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
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The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.
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But, I've always loved John Mayer and I think T-Pain is brilliant.
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When you are rich, people try to take advantage of you.
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I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.
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It might have been offset for us if the revenue from our own oil and natural gas that was just developing had been available to the Labor Government, but the oil revenues were just coming in when Labor fell in '79.
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The single biggest surprise about arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here.
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I credit chiropractic care for maintaining my health to keep up the pace of my career.
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I hate all explanations; they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both.
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Making our goal anything other than peace is emotionally self-destructive.
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Think of what's stored in an 80- or a 90-year-old mind. Just marvel at it. You've got to get out this information, this knowledge, because you've got something to pass on. There'll be nobody like you ever again. Make the most of every molecule you've got as long as you've got a second to go.
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Cognition requires going beyond the information given, to make bets and therefore to risk errors.
