David Viscott Quotes

From time to time, everyone distorts. We all tend to believe what supports our side of the question and doubt what weakens it. When we are under stress, we tend to believe what we need to believe.

David Viscott

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There is strength in numbers, but organizing those numbers is one of the great challenges.

John C. Mather

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Less than a year after loading the company up with debt, Romney and Bain gave themselves bonuses four times bigger than the $8 million they had put into the deal.

Jennifer Granholm

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Coming from a different perspective on a society is really interesting. I love the Paul Thomas Anderson's 'Phantom Thread,' and that's a version of Britishness and Englishness made by an American.

Andrew Haigh

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If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.

Robert Quillen

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To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.

John James Audubon

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I wanted to be a man who travelled the world to make peace. I didn't realise that most diplomats are megaphones for their governments.

Stellan Skarsgard

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Occasionally, Americans in large numbers are moved by a vanquished athlete's grief. Larry Bird with a towel over his head in 1979 comes immediately to mind. But more often, sports fans do the opposite - they delight in the desolation of a defeated archrival.

Steve Rushin

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Of course we have Queen Elizabeth as head of state, but in many ways we are a kind of republic. We don't have royals in Australia, so it was kind of unusual to run into those kind of people. But aside from that it was quite ordinary.

Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark

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The thing that I find interesting about teens now is that no matter how desperate we seem to be taxonomically 'othering' them, for one reason or another - because the Internet, because whatever - I feel like a lot of the benchmarks and the experiences are, you know, same for teens through time immemorial.

Mary H.K. Choi

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You can be in show business and have a happy, productive life. But you have to be a developed human being before you can do that.

Michelle Phillips

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Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

Ludwig van Beethoven

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The atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it into words.

Lord Kelvin

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