Peter Singer Quotes

Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational, long-term planning.

Peter Singer

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We can't be empowered women in our career and strong women in our relationships if it weren't for the fact that we're healthy.

Joanna Garcia

WomenStrongCareerHealthyFact

I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.

Angus Wilson

ManCommonCommon ManConcernHe

Over tens and hundreds of thousands of years, we evolved to find certain things stimulating, and as very intelligent, civilized beings, we're enormously stimulated by problem solving and learning.

Tom Chatfield

LearningProblemFindIntelligent

I think that most of the young officers I know are leftists and liberals and Democrats. And the reason is this: All of our soldiers, the men that work for us directly, are minorities - blacks or Latinos. And we empathize with them. Our job is to advise them and help them.

Rod Lurie

WorkMenJobThinkHelpYoung

It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. I can't wait until morning - it'll be gone.

Mary Oliver

MorningWaitWake UpThinkThinking

I think living the blessed life is the luck of the draw.

Judith Guest

LifeLuckBlessedThinkLivingDraw

I'm proud of 'Sinister' because Scott and Cargill did a great job on the movie, and I set up a framework for them to make what they wanted to make. They gave me the idea, and I figured out how to get it out into the world.

Jason Blum

GreatJobMeWorldProudOut

I've always had a really active imagination. Lots of kids have imaginary friends. Mine just took on a rather demonic form.

Claire Danes

ImaginationFriendsActiveAlways

'The Practical Heart' was published one week before the World Trade towers collapsed. Book reviewing and all else in our culture stopped dead-still for half a year. I went on the book tour anyway. But I felt like the apostle Paul going unto the catacombs where scared believers hid and prayed.

Allan Gurganus

HeartCultureWorldBookWeekYear

Reporters often forget that athletes are human beings.

Willie Stargell

ForgetHumanHuman BeingsReporters

Parents need to sit down with their boys and girls and tell them how to carry themselves and tell the boys how to respect women and respect yourself and know who you are.

Pepa

WomenRespectYourselfParentsYou

I live every day as it comes. I never plan my life.

Shaheer Sheikh

LifeLiveDayMy LifePlanNever

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