Donald Sutherland I was obsessed with not knowing what happened after you were dead. And I sat or kneeled for a whole day with my head against the wall, trying to figure it out. But I couldn’t, and I just said, ‘Okay.’ And then it was nothingness. – Donald Sutherland Day Quotes Dead Quotes Figure Quotes Happened Quotes Head Quotes Kneeled Quotes Knowing Quotes Nothingness Quotes Obsessed Quotes Sat Quotes Wall Quotes What the nation’s built on is discussion, contradiction and growth, and at the moment you can’t discuss anything. If you do start to discuss it, you get criticized. If people hate us, you have to find out why and try to solve that problem. You have a little bit of talent, a certain amount of good fortune and a lot of hard work in pursuit of whatever truth you can find in it, and if you are really lucky, a terrific partner and I have that and those four things worked out for me.
Alvin Dark The Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I learned to love were the sportswriters. – Alvin Dark
Richard Thaler A nudge is some feature of the environment that changes the behaviour of humans but would not change the behaviour of rational economic agents, what we call Econs. – Richard Thaler
Arno Penzias If you don’t want to be replaced by a machine, don’t try to act like one! – Arno Penzias
Hisham Matar One of the frustrations of prison life, which is also one of its intended consequences, is that the prisoner is made ineffective. He is unable to be of much use. The aim is to render him powerless. – Hisham Matar
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