Jordan Peterson Quotes

It isn't generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn't generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it's in the nature of hierarchy.

Jordan Peterson

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When I was visiting schools, I wanted to go and see what they got. After my visit, I knew that Kansas was good.

Joel Embiid

GoodGoSeeKansasGotKnew

We were under a lot of financial pressure when I was growing up.

Andrew Garfield

Growing UpFinancialPressureGrowing

My earliest memories are sitting on the beach at Blackpool, and I know that if I went back, it would be horrible. I know what Blackpool's like - it's nothing like I imagined it was as a child.

Robert Smith

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I don't really need to be remembered. I hope the music's remembered.

Jeff Buckley

MusicHopeNeedRememberedReally

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

HappinessWisdomSupremePart

I know what it's like to be afraid of the police. When you see a police officer, you don't immediately feel safe. You wonder what you've done wrong and what could happen to you.

Stacy Brown-Philpot

PoliceFeelYouWonderWrongKnow

When Xi Jinping came to power, there were a series of hints that market-based capitalism would be allowed to move forward under his leadership. At the first real threat, they've fallen over themselves to impose government control.

Roger Altman

LeadershipPowerGovernmentControl

I am a criminal. Coming to terms with this aspect of my identity has helped me to see more clearly - with blinders off - the ways in which I have been encouraged not to feel any connection to 'them,' those labeled criminals. I see now that 'they' are me, and I am them.

Michelle Alexander

I AmIdentityMeFeelConnection

It is, I think, harder for women. I haven't quite figured it out, and all of my women friends haven't figured it out -how the hell do you do this? How do you work and have families?

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

WorkWomenThinkHellFriendsYou

In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field.

Donald Knuth

WantSeeWhateverWouldComputer

I went to a performing arts school. I went to an audition for a musical, 'Les Miserables,' in the West End, and I got in, and my parents were like, 'Oh, you can sing?' So I kind of started singing properly when I was, like, seven.

Anne-Marie

SchoolParentsSingingEndYouKind

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

William Penn

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