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“I feel like I've had a number of roles in suits, which is hilarious to the people who know me, because it couldn't be further from who I am and what I wear. I think that Aaron Sorkin is, to a certain extent, responsible.”
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“Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of punishment is often unrelated to actual crime patterns.”
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“We think we are unique, special and deserving of happiness, but we are terrified of being alone.”
Source : Sara Maitland, The School of Life (2014). “How to Be Alone”, p.11, Pan Macmillan
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“I am sentimental,’ she said. ‘I could dissect a koala but not its baby. I like the words damozel, eglantine, elegant. I love when you kiss my elongated white hand.”
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“One of the things, universally, that psychologists found with hijackers in the early '70s was that they all struggled with women.”
Source : "Will Don Draper Become D.B. Cooper? A Skyjacking Expert Weighs In". Interview with Julia Turner, www.slate.com. April 16, 2014.
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“Whenever there's a camera in my face, that's when I feel vulnerable, and then it turns into a little bit of being self-conscious, which I think is the worst kind of vulnerability.”
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“The well-meaning people who talk of education as if it were a substance distributable by coupon in large or small quantities never exhibit any understanding of the truth that you cannot teach anybody anything that he does not want to learn.”
Source : George Sampson (2013). “Seven Essays”, p.48, Cambridge University Press
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“I say to the grown-ups, 'If you want to deny evolution and live in your world that's completely inconsistent with everything we've observed in the universe that's fine. But don't make your kids do it.'”
Source : "'Bill Nye the Science Guy' to Debate Evolution at Kentucky's Creation Museum" by Alyssa Newcomb, abcnews.go.com. January 3, 2014.