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I have shown that Swedish top students know statistically significantly less about the world than the chimpanzees.

What is the relationship between love and desire? How do they relate, and how do they conflict? ... Therein lies the mystery of eroticism.

Americans don't know a lot about the Middle East - [they] don't know we laugh.

We are educating people out of their creative capacities.

Don't be arrogant, because arrogance kills curiosity and passion.

Babies all over the world are what I like to describe as 'citizens of the world.' They can discriminate all the sounds of all languages, no matter what country we're testing and what language we're using.

When babies listen, what they're doing is taking statistics on the language that they hear.

So you're six years old, you're reading 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves,' and it becomes rapidly obvious that there are only two kinds of men in the world: dwarves and Prince Charmings. And the odds are seven to one against your finding the prince.

The very ingredients that nurture love - mutuality, reciprocity, protection, worry, responsibility for the other - are sometimes the very ingredients that stifle desire.

[Models] have the thinnest thighs, the shiniest hair and the coolest clothes, and they're the most physically insecure women probably on the planet.

If you want to destroy something in this life, be it an acne, a blemish or the human soul, all you need to do is to surround it with thick walls. It will dry up inside.

Burning one hectare of grassland gives off more, and more damaging, pollutants than 6,000 cars. And we are burning in Africa, every single year, more than one billion hectares.

There are more than 27 million people enslaved in the world today - that's double the amount of people taken from Africa during the entire trans-Atlantic slave trade.

If Americans want to live the American dream, they should go to Denmark.

The next 30 days are going to pass whether you like it or not, so why not think about something you have always wanted to try and give it a shot for the next 30 days?

What's it like to be a baby? It's like being in love in Paris for the first time after you've had three double espressos.

Your child will live a life ten years younger than you because of the landscape of food that we've built around them.

I've been shot down so many times, I get altitude sickness just from standing up for myself.

Very many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak of.

If you want people to perform better, you reward them, right? Bonuses, commissions, their own reality show. Incentivize them. [...] But that's not happening here. You've got an incentive designed to sharpen thinking and accelerate creativity, and it does just the opposite. It dulls thinking and blocks creativity.

Vulnerability pushed, I pushed back. I lost the fight, but probably won my life back.