Hindsight bias makes surprises vanish.
Daniel Kahneman
Recitation: by Male by Female
I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state, you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you.
Jewel
LoveHomeMyselfFeelHometownYou
I guess it feels to me that the political argument that has been lost in my lifetime is taxation. How do you engage in that debate when people don't trust politicians at all? It is almost impossible to start a conversation about taxation.
Johann Lamont
TrustPeopleMeStartImpossible
Don't believe everything that you read in the newspapers.
Andrew Card
BelieveYouEverythingRead
It's a delightful thing to do, to entertain kids. They're a completely different audience because of their total lack of irony. You're always after a total suspension of disbelief, but the only people you can really achieve it with is children.
John Lithgow
ChildrenPeopleYouAchieveIrony
It never occurred to me to be an actor.
John Malkovich
MeActorNeverOccurred
The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.
Michael Gove
KnowledgeKeySocialMobility
Paul Heyman works with Brock. The magic works between Brock and Paul because of their dynamic and their chemistry.
Stone Cold Steve Austin
MagicChemistryDynamicBecausePaul
If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing.
Mary Frances Berry
DownSheBusStandingStillParks
We have new rules that give shareholders the ability to vote on executive compensation. We have new rules for asset-backed securities. We have new rules around credit rating agencies.
Mary Schapiro
CreditRulesNewVoteAbilityGive
The idea of sacrifice is integral to the John Henry myth. Heroic figures have to die in order for us to have our stories; we live and stand on their bones.
Colson Whitehead
LiveSacrificeStandDieBonesMyth
I am contesting elections since 1952, but never did I throw mud.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
I AmNeverMudElectionsThrowDid
Because, first of all, we were becoming aware during that tour that there was a group of people that was following the band around, and they weren't interested in coming in to the shows, they were just interested in hangin' out outside and tryin' to break in.
Phil Lesh
PeopleGroupBandFirstOutsideOut
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