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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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"Dread of night. Dread of not-night."
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"I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights."
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"How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die."
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"You noticed from last night, we only did two from the 80s. And our set's two hours long."
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"The Brooklyn Dodgers had a no hitter last night."
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"I'd still prefer to do five nights at a club than one night at Allstate Arena."
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"We didn't let a night go by that we didn't play."
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"I remember in the early days when we played six nights a week for a month and I was doing my long drum solo every night. My hands were covered in blisters."
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"I want to feel lucky every night when I go onstage, and not feel like, 'Oh, great, here we go again."
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"I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operates at so many different levels. Out of that research came the Stanford shyness clinic in 1977."
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"Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic."
Behavior
"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
"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
"The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces."
Evil
"Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented."
Time
"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
"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."
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"Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed."
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