“The idea that we cause harm by doing what we perceive to be the right thing, that's another theme that interests me. Because most people don't intend to cause harm, they cause harm by doing the right thing - in their mind.”
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“We do a lot of talking with our mouths, but we don't necessarily realize the signals we give out physically with our body posture when we're talking to people.”
“Don't ever get wrapped up with what other people think you should look like.”
“Dance improves your ability to concentrate because your brain has to work in so many ways. You're being stretched physically and mentally. You've got to focus on the steps and you have to communicate and interact with people.”
“Even low-calorie diets and vigorous exercise fail to work in the long term for at least some people.”
“I've always been willing to take risks and chances. Often I'm on talk shows and hosts will ask 'How do you feel about it, when people say you're controversial?' And I say that, 'I think if I stop being controversial, I wouldn't be doing my job.”
“In my experience, the more people have, the less likely they are to be contented. Indeed, there is abundant evidence that depression is a 'disease of affluence', a disorder of modern life in the industrialized world.”
“Another very common use, in all cultures, of psychoactive substances is to give people transcendent experiences. To allow them to transcend their human and ego boundaries to feel greater contact with the supernatural, or with the spiritual, or with the divine, however they phrase it in their terms.”
“In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created.”
“There is a sense in which the United States Ambassador speaks to the United States, as well as for the United States. I have always seen my role as a thermostat, rather than a thermometer. So I'm going to be actively working... for my own concerns. I have always had people advise me on what to say, but never on what not to say.”
“I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.”
“People talk about 'lives of significance'-as if there's an alternative. If you're not leading a life of significance, you're not living.”
“Amber Rose is NOT Charlie's [Rose] cousin. I just want to make sure people know.”
“I cannot believe the volume of famous people I run into in my life, and that's part of the reason I love diary format.”
“I hope people will find the book [Superficial: More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries] a whole lot more than hollow.”
“People don't get drafted into being housewives. It's a voluntary experience, so people are putting themselves into this situation voluntarily.”
“Fame does different things to different people. For some people it makes them a better person.”
“Most of the hip-hop people are very straight.”
“Any actor who's onstage... at least this is what I do... I'm always using 120% on whatever the heck I'm doing. I have to make an impression with all the bursts of things I do in this show... taking the picture, shutting the door, opening the door... as long as I'm making people laugh at those moments, I feel like I'm accomplishing something.”
“I'm living up to my own self-critical standard of doing theater in a lead position, the way I feel like I should be doing it. People are liking it, and it's all working. Just that, in any actor's life, is profound. That's what I was enjoying with the process.”