Jonathan Haidt Quotes

If you have high IQ, you're really good at finding post-hoc arguments to support your feelings of truthiness.

Jonathan Haidt

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'Flower' is about the sublime.

Jenova Chen

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My musical education started in the limelight, because I found myself surrounded by real musicians, but after my career had taken off.

John Lurie

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When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does.

Maurice Sendak

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It's normal for people, especially politicians, to expect rewards in return for favors.

Tucker Carlson

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Because the Vikings never documented anything - they couldn't read or write - the history is always gonna be a little up in the air.

Travis Fimmel

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Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right.

Rutherford B. Hayes

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The economics of life is against the family.

Ruby Dee

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I think the truest things come from silence, but everything's always so clogged up with noise. If everything falls away, and you can truly listen to someone, giving them yourself and generosity, you can truly lose yourself in what they're saying. Like, not impose your ideas on what they're saying, but really tune into them.

Johnny Flynn

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I became an actor in that important drama with an inflexible resolution to persevere through the last scene, when we might be permitted and acknowledged to enjoy what we had so nobly declared we would possess, or lose with our lives - Freedom and Independence!

Deborah Sampson

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I know that some actors take acting terribly seriously. I take it seriously in that if someone pays me to do it I know I have to deliver.

David Warner

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I am so grateful, without sounding cheesy, to have such amazing friends with me and to have a career that's going so well.

Chelsea Leyland

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If you can help guide somebody through a challenging moment because you've been there, that ends up becoming a great gift.

Christian Slater

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