Personal Behavior Quotes

• Probably never in human history did we live in a society in which, at the microlevel of personal behavior, our lives were so strongly regulated.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Behavior, Humans, Our Lives

  Source: www.electronicbookreview.com

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• [Democrats] have got to start winning elections. That involves not some great idea, but it also involves recruiting candidates. And Rahm Emanuel, the mayor of Chicago, who has given obnoxiousness a new definition in his personal behavior, oftentimes in his dealings with the press, had a very good point.

  Mark Shields

  Winning, Ideas, Chicago

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think that unlike W Bush who was an actual evangelical and sincerely so (my family knew the Bush family), of course Trump will disappoint when it comes to evangelicals. I'm not talking about personal behavior but policy.

  Frank Schaeffer

  Thinking, Talking, My Family

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• I think identity issues have their place in the workplace, less so personal behaviors.

  Steven Petrow

  Thinking, Issues, Identity

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• I don't have too much interest in teaching other people how to get rich. And that isn't because I fear the competition or anything like that - Warrenhas always been very open about what he's learned, and I share that ethos. My personal behavior model is Lord Keynes: I wanted to get rich so I could be independent, and so I could do other things like give talks on the intersection of psychology and economics. I didn't want to turn it into a total obsession.

  Charlie Munger

  Teaching, Independent, Ethos

  Charlie Munger's speech on the psychology of human misjudgment at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 1995.

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• Modern 'public health' initiatives have moved well beyond what could reasonably be classified as public goods. Today, government undertakes all sorts of policies in the name of public health that are aimed at regulating personal behavior.

  Radley Balko

  Government, Names, Today

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• Most of what has been written about me is one big blur, but I do remember being described in one simple word that I agree with. It was in a piece that tore me apart for my personal behavior, but the writer said that when the music began and I started to sing, I was "honest."

  Frank Sinatra

  Simple, Pieces, Honest

  "Read Playboy ... for the Interviews" by Max Linsky, www.slate.com. November 26, 2012.

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• Sexually-transmitted diseases is caused by sexual activity and promiscuity it spreads diseases. That's been known, you know, about 400 or 500 years, that somehow these diseases are spread. If fault comes with people because of their personal behavior but it isn't to be placed on a burden on other people, innocent people, why should they have to pay for the consequences?

  Ron Paul

  Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Years, People

  "Reps. Ron Paul, Michele Bachmann and Gov. Rick Perry on Final Push in Iowa". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. January 1, 2012.

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• Often I think of personal behavior and judgment errors as being superficial wounds.

  Steve Tisch

  Thinking, Errors, Judgment

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• I'm still strongly opposed to antismoking laws, strongly opposed to any law that regulates personal behavior.

  John Perry Barlow

  Law, Behavior, Stills

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• Let us all improve our personal behavior and redouble our efforts to protect our loved ones and our environment from the onslaught of pornography.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Effort, Environment, Loved Ones

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• Obama's view of the tax code is inherently political: Whom can we hit next? Energy companies, jet owners, bankers? Instead, the question should be how to promote economic efficiency by raising revenue without trying to manipulate corporate or personal behavior.

  John Sununu

  Views, Political, Trying

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