"I do have a ridiculously high hedonic set-point"

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Anders Sandberg

“Iâ€™ll be quite frank with you â€” I didnâ€™t know about Hunger Games â€” so when Iâ€™m telling kids and they say, â€˜Who are you playing?â€™ and I say Cinna, they go, â€˜Oh youâ€™re playing the gay guy.â€™ That was an actual answer. Iâ€™ve never brought that up yet. Thatâ€™s how they perceived it. So I thought about it, and I read the book and I donâ€™t see that he is or isnâ€™t [gay]. Heâ€™s a designer, heâ€™s a stylist, he has gold eyelinerâ€”that doesnâ€™t mean anything either way.”
“It's dishonourable to stay stupider than you need to be”
“Solitude is the furnace of transformation.”
“I'm not a nerd, I play one on TV.”

Source : Interview with Sean O'Neal, music.avclub.com. December 12, 2006.
“The man possessed of a dollar, feels himself to be not merely one hundred cents richer, but also one hundred cents better, than the man who is penniless; so on through all the gradations of earthly possessions - the estimate of our own moral and political importance swelling always in a ratio exactly proportionate to the growth of our purse.”
“Where do whites fit in the New Africa? Nowhere, I'm inclined to sayand I do believe that it is true that even the gentlest and most westernised Africans would like the emotional idea of the continent entirely without the complication of the presence of the white man for a generation or two. But nowhere, as an answer for us whites, is in the same category as remarks like What's the use of living? in the face of the threat of atomic radiation. We are living; we are in Africa.”
“Playing Bill Clinton is really, probably, the scariest time of my career.”
“The Sun in London ran a front page declaring my bum a national treasure. I really did laugh at that. Its not like it can actually do anything, except wiggle.”

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