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We are very influenced by completely automatic things that we have no control over, and we don't know we're doing it.

Automatic Control Doing Know
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Friends are sometimes a big help when they share your feelings. In the context of decisions, the friends who will serve you best are those who understand your feelings but are not overly impressed by them.

Overly Feelings Best Serve
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If individuals are rational, there is no need to protect them against their own choices.

Choices Own Against Protect
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Clearly, the decision-making that we rely on in society is fallible. It's highly fallible, and we should know that.

Know Fallible Highly Society
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It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.

Pattern Coherent Easier Little
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The public was used to a Pauly Shore film coming out every year or two, you understand? So when that went away, the public lost familiarity with me.

Away Coming Every Familiarity
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Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations.

Associations Different Emotions Evoke
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When you put yourself out into the world and say, 'Hey, look at me,' you're going to get criticized.

Criticized Get Going Hey
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When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish.

Distinguish People Happiness Word
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Comedy wasn't something I chose - it chose me. I was just inherently funny when I was a kid.

Chose Comedy Funny Inherently
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I think the best comedy comes from stuff that's based in reality.

Based Best Comedy Reality
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One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There is a sense of volatility, but not of progress.

Progress Sense Better Things
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When you're a kid, all you really care about are Slurpees and Slip N Slide and riding your bike, and that's what I did.

About Bike Care Did
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When people talk of the economy being strong, they don't seem to feel that they, too, are better off.

Better Feel Seem Strong
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I miss working with great actors, working with great directors

Actor Directors Great Miss
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People talk of the new economy and of reinventing themselves in the workplace, and in that sense most of us are less secure.

Secure Less Sense New
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The concept of happiness has to be reorganised.
Concept Happiness
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I think you gotta look at stuff half-full as opposed to half-empty.
Gotta Look Opposed Stuff
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I'm into politics - I'm interested in the election and how pissed off people get.

Election Get How Interested
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All of us would be better investors if we just made fewer decisions.

Better Decisions Fewer Investors
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Serious and intense people, they drain you. But someone who's an idiot, like myself, they're fun. You either hate me or you love me.

Drain Either Fun Hate
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I would not advise people to buy a car or house without making a list. You will probably improve your intuitions by making a list and then sleeping on it.

List Improve Making House
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I fly around with chicks on each arm and have no script. I just talk about what I feel like. But that's why my act works: I'm like this normal guy.

About Act Arm Around
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It's very difficult to distinguish between what a person believes and what they say they believe.

Believe Person Between Distinguish
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Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.

Religion Receptive Intuitively Minds
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When you deal with a comedian who has a specific act, you can't hold 'em back. You got to work with 'em, dude. What you think, I'm just gonna do what's on the page, say 'yes sir, no sir'? I'm creatively beyond that.

Act Back Beyond Comedian
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I want to show all sides of myself. I mean, I don't want to howl at the moon my whole life, you know?

Howl Know Life Mean
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The best part about stand-up is that you control everything. Period.
About Best Control Everything
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When you work in movies, or on TV shows, there are 50 other people involved. And it's hard, man. They brainwash you to think you're doing the right thing.

Doing Hard Involved Man
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You don't have to be inspired by comedians. You have to be inspired by things that are real, whether it's music, comedy...a movie - that should inspire you.

Comedy Comedians Inspired Real
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Physically, my character is stronger than him which is totally unrealistic, ... Because in reality he can ... kill me. I think it has a lot to do with (him being) the youngest of all of his brothers, and I think he got beat up a lot.

Physically Unrealistic Character Beat
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If you're going to be unreligious, it's likely going to be due to reflecting on it and finding some things that are hard to believe.

Believe Due Hard Going
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All of us roughly know what memory is. I mean, memory is sort of the storage of the past. It's the storage of our personal experiences. It's a very big deal.

Big Storage Past Mean
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We don't only tell stories when we set out to tell stories, our memory tells us stories. That is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.

Story Keep Get Set
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There is a huge wave of interest in happiness among researchers. There is a lot of happiness coaching. Everybody would like to make people happier.

Happier People Coaching Among
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We think of our future as anticipated memories.
Memories Anticipated Future Our
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Most of the time, we think fast. And most of the time we're really expert at what we're doing, and most of the time, what we do is right.

Right Time Most Expert
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You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.

Else Everything EverythingElse Happy
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Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.

About Think Actually Ought
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Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in control of how you spend your time.

Time Spend Control Feeling
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Surfing soothes me, it's always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I'm on a wave.

Always Awesome Been Disappears
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I'm into being a dad, that's where my focus is most of the time. I'm an actor that's my job, but it's not my life. I have a lot of other interests too.

Actor Being Dad Focus
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It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.

Happiness Money Extent People
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Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering.

Suffering Reduce Certainly Elderly
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People should be conscious of the large contribution made by anything that gets people together easily in the reduction of loneliness and emotional well-being.

Emotional Reduction Easily Large
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Many ideas happen to us. We have intuition, we have feeling, we have emotion, all of that happens, we don't decide to do it. We don't control it.

Control Decide Happen Emotion
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It doesn't take many observations to think you've spotted a trend, and it's probably not a trend at all.

Trend Probably Spotted Think
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
Further Giants Others Seen
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Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.

Christ God God Hath Hath
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We're beautiful devices. The devices work well; we're all experts in what we do. But when the mechanism fails, those failures can tell you a lot about how the mind works.

Works Mind Failures Experts
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