Edward Boyden Quotes
Behavioral economics can explain some things, but it's hard to explain a lot of the underlying processes that generate these decisions, much less some of these unconscious things that we don't have a handle on at all.
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
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The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
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I've come to the conclusion that the average person can do about four things a day, like four real things a day.
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God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
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Meditation helps me to calm down.
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I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt.
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Not always trainers, but if I don't have to, I don't wear high heels. It's really just if something looks good on me, I'm going to buy it. It can be Zara or Chanel... I'm going to buy it.
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Hey, I may loathe myself, but it has nothing to do with the fact that I'm Jewish.
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Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.
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I have a really hard time abiding by falsehoods being left in place.
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The food in south India is the food that I really love because it reminds me of home.
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Why does 'writer' have no gender, but 'actor' has a gender? What is that?
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The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
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We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
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You have to respect the system. If you have a problem with the system, change the system.
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and those in cemeteries.
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Golf is like hunting and fishing. What counts is the companionship and fellowship of friends, not what you catch or shoot.
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A clearer and more conventional narrative would have helped the film without, in my opinion, lessening its beauty and its impact. Frankly, I'm still trying to figure out what I'm doing there and what I was supposed to add in that context! What's more, Terry Malick himself never managed to explain it to me clearly.
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The human condition is always to push forward for the better and economics is the study of that process.
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Behavioral economics can explain some things, but it's hard to explain a lot of the underlying processes that generate these decisions, much less some of these unconscious things that we don't have a handle on at all.
