Mark Pagel Quotes

Natural selection has duped us with an emotion that encourages group thinking. It is an emotion that makes us act as if for the good of the group; an emotion that brings pleasure, pride, or even thrills from coordinated group activity.

Mark Pagel

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GoodThinkingPrideGroupEmotion

The goal of the Head Start program is to give at-risk children all across our Nation a fair chance at succeeding in the educational system.

Joe Baca

ChildrenStartChanceGoalFair

As we have always seen here in the U.S. the universal truth about elections is that people vote their pocketbook.

Jennifer Dunn

TruthPeopleVoteAlwaysSeenHere

I've been addicted to TV since I emerged from the womb.

Anderson Cooper

BeenTVSinceWombAddictedEmerged

Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switched to bass, whereas Jeff has a more traditional approach to playing bass in a band, and has a great sense of what his band sounds like, and we lock up nicely.

Matt Cameron

GreatMoreBandUpLockPlaying

When my mother died, it sort of put a damper on things. My career didn't have the same significance or excitement. It had always been about doing well for my family - my brothers, sisters, father, mother. Then something interesting and important happened - I started doing things for me.

John Travolta

FamilyFatherMotherMeInteresting

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.

Anais Nin

LiveMomentMeDreamAheadMiracle

I want to stay below the radar and make good films. I have to be careful; I don't want my life to change. I really don't want to be a movie star.

Amelia Warner

LifeChangeGoodMy LifeWantStar

When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.

Steve Lacy

ResearchNowImitationOriginality

Live theater makes me nervous. I feel like I have to fake emotions, because the actors can see me.

Su-chin Pak

LiveMeFakeFeelEmotionsNervous

The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally.

Steven Pinker

FriendshipBusinessThinkYouRules

We are a people of many different religions and many different faiths. The only way forward in a pluralistic society of diverse faiths such as ours is to have laws that protect and respect the freedom of all, equally.

Martin O'Malley

FreedomRespectPeopleSocietyWay

I've lived my whole life exactly the way I've wanted to. Being gay, being white, being male, it doesn't matter to me. They're all things I'm born with.

Johnny Weir

LifeMeGayWhiteBornWay

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