Daniel Kahneman Quotes

Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders - not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and taking risks.

Daniel Kahneman

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When I first started out in politics I was, what you might describe as, a hard right Conservative.

John Bercow

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Art is spiritual.

John Cusack

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I didn't think much about Marsden Hartley until very recently, but Gertrude Stein found him to be the best American painter in Europe at the time she was alive. I consider my tributes to him my most important works.

Robert Indiana

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If the day's writing has been particularly good or particularly bad, a glass of scotch will be involved.

Stephen J. Dubner

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I grew up in Texas in a family that fished and hunted, so I've shot guns as a kid.

Stark Sands

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My next film is always shaped by the last one... by the things I feel I didn't get right, or the things I like and want to try to develop further, but it always comes out of the last picture.

Robert Benton

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Deep in the culture of Apple is this sense and understanding of design, developing, and making. Form and the material and process - they are beautifully intertwined - completely connected.

Jonathan Ive

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As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

Desmond Tutu

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Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone... Bad food is fake food... food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people's ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

Anthony Bourdain

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I did Internet dating for a while, and that is rife with horrible dating stories.

Allison Tolman

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I played soccer for 12 years on three different teams at a time.

Portia Doubleday

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I love Spanish food. My diet is the Mediterranean diet, which is good food. I eat well.

Penelope Cruz

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