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"One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us."
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"It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way."
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"Being a mum has made me a lot more responsible, it's not just me anymore. But it's also brought me the most joy ever!"
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"I remember being shocked when I came out from under the focusing cloth after a minute or two being submerged within that, at the startling green color of those ferns."
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"I'm such a video game fan that being able to do voices in video games is just fantastic."
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"Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line."
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"I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being. It doesn't mean there aren't ramifications or you shouldn't pay for that but its not who you are."
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"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise."
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"Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had."
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"Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood."
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"I get up in the morning, do my e-mail, I check my e-mails all day. I'll go online and I'll buy my books at Amazon.com, but I don't want to buy all of them because I want to go to Duttons and I want to buy books from another human being."
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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."
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"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

"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

"The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life."
Life

"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

"Academic success depends on research and publications."
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"After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever."
Passion

"Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic."
Behavior

"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
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