Martin Seligman Quotes

The word 'happiness' always bothered me, partly because it was scientifically unwieldy and meant a lot of different things to different people, and also because it's subjective.

Martin Seligman

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HappinessPeopleMeDifferent People

I don't know whether I inspire anything in anyone.

John Hurt

InspireKnowAnythingWhetherAnyone

If you are the record label who owns Lady Gaga, and you have a new artist coming up, you can say, 'Let's have the artist play just before Gaga.' Now you've exposed the huge Gaga audience to the new artist. It's similar to showing a trailer before a movie. The hit creates a hit.

Anita Elberse

LadyYouArtistPlayNewSay

If Donald Trump is our nominee, I don't think that he represents the best our party has to offer either in temperament or qualification, and I think he's the weakest candidate that is in the race at this point in terms of the general election, and that to nominate him is to give Hillary Clinton a much better chance of being president.

Trent Franks

BestChanceThinkBetterPartyRace

I am terrible with people's names.

Rob Lowe

I AmPeopleNamesTerribleAm

I've been singing ever since I was little, but I didn't start taking it seriously until I was about 15 or 16.

Conor Maynard

SingingStartSeriouslyLittleBeen

I wanted to answer big questions about humanity, about how it is that we understand about the world, how we can know as much as we do, why human nature is the way that it is. And it always seemed to me that you find answers to those questions by looking at children.

Alison Gopnik

NatureChildrenMeWorldLooking

Never, never, will I accept, on issues of integrity, comparisons with the Liberal party.

Pauline Marois

IntegrityPartyAcceptWillNever

The Bangles are proof that short skirts and electric guitars go hand-in-hand. They are one of the great all-girl groups, backing up their looks with a serious pop-rock pedigree.

Shawn Amos

GreatShortLooksGoSeriousUp

Democracy is not only the right to vote, it is also about not resorting to violence in order to reach political goals and respecting agreements signed by former governments.

Tzipi Livni

GoalsDemocracyReachPoliticalVote

White folks may let you in their country clubs to play golf, invite you out to dinner, take you out to play tennis, but when it comes to dividing up the money, that's a whole 'nother story.

Marion Barry

MoneyDinnerStoryGolfYouPlay

I wanted to be a movie star. But movie stars are not what they used to be.

Lindsay Lohan

StarsStarUsedMovie StarMovie

Wikipedia is kind of weird. I feel it's lame to put up my own page, but I desperately want someone else to do it.

Kumail Nanjiani

WeirdFeelSomeonePageWantKind

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