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“Children model the behavior of adults, on whatever scale is available to them. Ours are growing up in a nation whose most important, influential men - from presidents to the coolest film characters - solve problems by killing people. ... We have taught our children in a thousand ways, sometimes with flag-waving and sometimes with a laugh track, that the bad guy deserves to die.”

“A grifter's got an irresistible urge to be the guy who's wise. There's nothin' to whipping a fool. Hell, fools are made to be whipped. But to take another pro. Even your partner, who knows you and has his eye on you. That's a score! No matter what happens.”

Knows Made Matter Happens Eye Guy Hell Wise Crime Fool Behavior No Matter What Partners His Eyes Score Urges Cheating Irresistible Whipping

Author:Donald E. Westlake

“I think to deal with Putin, you need to deal from strength. He's a bully, you enable bad behavior when you're nuanced with a guy like that.”

Thinking Needs Guy Deals Strength Behavior Bully Putin Bad Behavior

Author:Jeb Bush

“It's much harder to play beloved than to play a rotten guy. Rotten guy is a piece of cake. So playing a beloved person really sets a high bar for your behavior and your acting and what you project.”

Persons Play Guy Acting Pieces Behavior Projects Harder Bars Beloved Cake Rotten Beloved Person

Author:Bill Murray

“Well the open-outcry auction is just made to turn the brain into mush: you've got social proof, the other guy is bidding, you get reciprocation tendency, you get deprival super-reaction syndrome, the thing is going away... I mean it just absolutely is designed to manipulate people into idiotic behavior.”

People Wells Mean Made Guy Turns Social Brain Behavior Proof Reactions Tendencies Going Away Manipulate Other Guys Syndromes Idiotic Bidding Auctions

Author:Charlie Munger

“If I could control the behavior of fat guys I would make them ride mopeds more often.”

Ifs Guy Behavior Fats If I Could Mopeds

Author:Demetri Martin

“My objective always is to stay as close as possible and shoot the pictures as if through the eyes of the infantryman, the Marine, or the pilot. I wanted to give the reader something of the visual perspective and feeling of the guy under fire, his apprehensions and sufferings, his tensions and releases, his behavior in the presence of threatening death.”

Ifs Giving Feelings Eye Wanted Guy Suffering Fire Perspective Reader Behavior Objectives Release Tension Visuals Pilots Threatening Marine Apprehension Through The Eyes Infantryman

Author:David Douglas Duncan

“Just as we're always told that schoolyard bullies are actually deeply insecure, liberals rationalize their own ferocious behavior by claiming to have been wounded somehow. What about the little guy our poor, insecure bully is beating the living daylights out of? How's his self-esteem coming along? That is the essence of liberals: They viciously attack everyone else, while wailing that they are the victims.”

Littles Has Beens Self Guy Poor Self Esteem Behavior Essence Victim Esteem Wounded Insecure Bully Daylight Rationalize Wailing

Author:Ann Coulter

“Yes, creative people are more prone to addiction or addictive behavior. But, equally as prone is your mailman, your mother, your brother, your friend, the guy who does your banking. It's everywhere. The thing that happens in the press sometimes is Whitney Houston. She was just an addict. Just like your uncle Steve.”

People Sometimes Mother Guy Creative Brother Like You Behavior Addiction Addict Creative People

Author:Kristen Johnston

“It's about average for us. Behavior always draws more than survey. We're the sexy ones,' Nate said with a grin. Amy snorted. 'Oh, yeah, you guys are the Mae Wests of the nerd world.' We're action nerds,' Nate said. 'Adventure nerds. Nerds of romance.”

World Said Action Romance Guy Adventure Behavior Draws Yeah West Average Sexy Nerd Surveys Amy Mae

Book:Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings

Source: Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings

“I immediately felt better about killing him. I’ve never known a Trevor who wasn’t a total douchebag. It’s just one of those names that goes so nicely with selfish, arrogant, malicious behavior—and really, what did I know about this guy? Nothing, except that his name was Trevor and he’d been nabbed in the midst of breaking-and-entering. That was plenty.”

Knows Guy Names Felt Known Behavior Killing Selfish Plenty Just One Midst Arrogant Entering This Guy Malicious Douchebags Breaking And Entering

Book:Bloodshot

Source: Bloodshot