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"I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor. I grew up on welfare and often had to move in the middle of the night because we couldn't pay the rent."
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"The night creeps in by subtle degrees while a show of fierce colors attracts and distracts me. I look up, suddenly aware of remote lights scattered overhead. I gasp as the last streak of fire dies on the horizon, and I comprehend it all too late. That crafty, dark night has swallowed my world whole."
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"I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star."
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"I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything."
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"The one thing I could do was voices and impersonations and weird characters, and there was really no call for that, except on Saturday Night Live."
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"I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I."
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"Most of those mocking us and our works night after night have not reached the point of suggesting we are going to use those weapons. They are pretty useless right now."
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"It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night."
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"If it comes back, I think that Friday night is not a good night to be on."
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"Like every other place, I guess, Kansas City was quite a different city when I was a youngster there. They had quite a few clubs, and we had what we used to call jam sessions every night."
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"He would use amphetamines to stay awake because he would have late night maneuvers that would go way into the early morning hours and he was given pills to stay up for the long hours."
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"The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual."
Psychology
"Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse."
Evil
"Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world."
Being
"My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college."
Family
"Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic."
Behavior
"At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia."
Thought
"There are no limits to what I would do to make my classes exciting, interesting, unpredictable."
Education
"I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?"
People
"What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?"
History
"After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever."
Passion
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