Albert Bandura Quotes
If you look at our theories of social pathology and then at the dismal conditions in which children grow up in our ghettos, you would predict that all of them would be on drugs or psychological basket cases. Yet if you use criteria like gainful employment, forming partnerships and life without crime, you will find that most of those kids make it.
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
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I am a very reclusive, private person.
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When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.
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I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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I think the sidekick makes the number one look good.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.
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Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.
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Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
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I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.
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Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.
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Evil report carries further than any applause.
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Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women.
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I want to be proactive in bringing about change and enlightening people.
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It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.
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Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences.
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'If I have said nothing new tonight, it may well be because, in a family of nations as in families of individuals we should expect nothing more sensational than growth.'
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A public relations firm said that rock star David Lee Roth owes them over $110,000. The strange thing is that it's the first time that David Lee Roth has had any publicity in ten years.
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Bringing words to life, storyboards show you things that words can't.
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I like to be surprised by life; it's a good thing to search for the puzzle pieces.
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'Balance' is a really big word for me.
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If you look at our theories of social pathology and then at the dismal conditions in which children grow up in our ghettos, you would predict that all of them would be on drugs or psychological basket cases. Yet if you use criteria like gainful employment, forming partnerships and life without crime, you will find that most of those kids make it.
