"Leaving out appraisal also would render the biological description of the phenomena of emotion vulnerable to the caricature that emotions without an appraisal phase are meaningless events. It would be more difficult to see how beautiful and amazingly intelligent emotions can be, and how powerfully they can solve problems for us."

-- Antonio Damasio

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“My agent and I try to be picky with roles so that I can drive my career in different directions and be different, creative characters. I want to be an actor for the rest of my life and to have fun with my career. So I told him that I wish I could do a movie that already has a fan base. And then 'Twilight' came along!”
“Anyone who thinks itâ€™s funny to name their network "Tomâ€™sHugeEtc" is going to think itâ€™s funny that one of his neighbors is also named Tom and is embarrassed by it.”
“My mission at Google is to develop natural language understanding with a team and in collaboration with other researchers at Google.”
“People make the rules of society, not God.”
“Three years ago I came to Florida without a nickel in my pocket. Now I've got a nickel in my pocket”
“In fighting a bull you're always aware of a paradox concerning your perceptions of the bull. On the one hand it's your perceptions of the bull that give you the upper hand. You read the bull, you learn to read the bull more and more accurately, and this reading of the bull is how you deploy your intelligence against the bull's intelligence. Your accuracy in reading the bull is a weapon, maybe your most important weapon, against all the bull's weapons. On the other hand, you're human, you have the human tendency to read into the bull things which may not actually be there.”

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“I'm quite proud of my rear... I don't obsess over my flaws, because I see my body as a whole. Besides, I think men appreciate confidence more than perfection.”
“Not all cartoon humor is just about having bugged-out eyes and tongues flying out of people's heads.”

Source : "Collected Interviews: Voices from Twentieth-century Cinema". Book by Wheeler W. Dixon, 2001.

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