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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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"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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"There's always some promoter having an '80s night, saying, We'll supply the band. All you can drink."
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"The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost."
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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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"Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and wonder how I do these things. I can embarrass myself so badly that I literally get a hot prickle down the back of my neck."
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"I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night."
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"And hail their queen, fair regent of the night."
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"Clinton used to like to get out of the White House a lot. He would take night trips to McDonald's, and stuff like that. I think he wanted to get out of the house."
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"But, you know, they don't enjoy the dinner hour together. It's just not as much of a ritual at night and it's interesting. I think the ritual is taking place perhaps more in the morning."
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"I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired."
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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."
Night
"What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people."
Technology
"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
"Academic success depends on research and publications."
Success
"Prejudice and discrimination have always been a big part of my life. When I was 6, I got beat up and called dirty Jew boy because they thought I looked Jewish."
Life
"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
"After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever."
Passion
"Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge."
Behavior
"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
"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
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