Daniel Kahneman Quotes

People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human beings, and that is what I have lived with, you know, in my career all of my life, is the complexity of human beings.

Daniel Kahneman

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I know this sounds kind of crazy, but I think we're all actors.

Matt Dillon

CrazyThinkKnowKindSounds

There's something really interesting about having those close friends that you've had incredible times with but growing up and away from them. The underlying tensions, the shifting in the group dynamic, the little lies you tell to big yourself up: it's something that happens to us all.

John Simm

YourselfGrowing UpInterestingYou

I'm quite strong for a girl. I studied karate growing up - I'm a brown belt - and me and my sister used to beat the crap out of each other.

Suki Waterhouse

GirlMeSisterGrowing UpStrongUp

Last tour my bass rig was breaking down every other night. That was a pain. We would get on stage and Trey would count off the song, and I'd play the first note and nothing would be there. Those guys would just roll their eyes.

Mike Gordon

EyesPainNightSongDownPlay

I started acting professionally when I was about 17. I worked immediately, but a year into it, I did an independent film in Canada, and that started it all. It was proof that maybe I could do this as a career.

Jordan Gavaris

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There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

StrangeAlwaysBeenBetweenNigeria

I have women coming up to me and saying: 'I love your character! She's so empowered. She takes control; she gets what she wants.' That's another side of her. And I respect that in Joan. She says and does things that I would never allow myself to do.

Christina Hendricks

LoveWomenCharacterRespectMyself

I was in a movie called 'Before & After' with Meryl Streep. I was edited out of the movie, but no one told me. I think I was 18 or 19 years old. I sat across from her and asked her every question about acting. I completely embarrassed myself.

Chris Messina

MyselfMeThinkActingQuestionOut

I always ask, 'Is this movie essential? Does this movie need to exist? Does it need to exist right now?' And the answer to that is almost always no.

Allison Williams

NowAskNeedRightAlwaysAnswer

I don't believe environment has the slightest bit to do with anything - I only believe in ancestral influence. It would have made no difference whether I'd been brought up in a reform school, or on the island of Lesbos.

Preston Sturges

SchoolInfluenceBelieveEnvironment

Some of my colleagues are unwilling to vote for any Dodd-Frank reforms, partly out of the political fear that any reforms will be seen as reducing regulations on the financial sector.

Seth Moulton

FearColleaguesFinancialPolitical

I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.

Thomas Malthus

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