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Philip Zimbardo Quotes

Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic.

Philip Zimbardo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: psychologist
Nationality: american
Birth: March 23, 1933

Topics

Behavior Human Behavior Human Plastic

I was a history major, but that was because it took the fewest requirements of any major. In my sophomore year, I started getting back into making movies. My senior year, I took playwriting classes, and I feel like that's where I learned to be a writer.

History Feel Year Back Movies Where

Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way.

Song Impossible Ignore Sometimes Way

Before I latched onto the concept of stereotypes, not once did I reckon with the fact that I would never be a 'Hollywood starlet.'

Stereotypes Hollywood Never Would

When I said the city would be stronger, I didn't know that. I just hoped it. There are parts of you that say, 'Maybe we're not going to get through this.' You don't listen to them.

City Stronger You Know Said Say

New York is not the centre for American culture and art that it once was because of the forces of conservatism. Giuliani, capitalism - and then there was 9/11. I really believe that if I leave, it will suffer! Maybe that's why I love it here, because I feel wanted.

Rufus Wainwright

Love Art Culture New York Believe

Choreographers use me as the old guy who still dances. Not that I put on white tights.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Me White Old Guy Still Who

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

Michel de Montaigne

Courage Soul Legs Stability Arms

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

Words Small Always Up Currency Many

Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture.

Culture People World Spoiled Our

On the stage you develop a character that's different from yourself. In a film they're always saying, 'Walk over here. Say this line. Be you.'

Character Walk Yourself Saying You

Singing was the big focus and outlet for me.

Focus Me Singing Big Outlet

If you can find one thing in your life that can keep you in the moment, you're totally lucky.

Life Moment You Find Lucky Keep

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