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...imagine you're at the point where you didn't have to keep working if you didn't want to. What's driving you to stay on the road and keep at it? I like to do it, and I'm really not at the point that you say I am. Being on a record like [Kind of Blue], you may think I was getting a lot of that money, which is not true. You can throw that one out. I'm just out there like a working...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Creating Kind of Blue | 8/19/2009 | See Source »

...want to detect lies in other people. We are unwilling to put forward the cognitive effort to suspect the veracity of statements, and we aren't motivated to question people when they tell us things we want to hear. When we ask someone, "How are you doing?" and they say, "Fine," we really don't want to know what their aches and pains are. So we take "Fine" at face value. (Read a TIME story on ground rules for telling lies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why We Lie So Much | 8/19/2009 | See Source »

...say in the book that recent DNA evidence suggests that 10% of people have fathers other than the men they believe conceived them. So is lying pretty widespread in our intimate lives too? Research shows we lie less to people that we are close to. But when we do, they tend to be the bigger types of lies. And the fallout is greater if the deception is discovered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why We Lie So Much | 8/19/2009 | See Source »

...definitely want to go into journalism? I heard you say in another interview you might want to be a football player. I'm confused. Now I'm [thinking] about being a pilot. I would want to fly a rocket - and Delta Airlines. They have TVs on every seat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Child Journalist Damon Weaver | 8/19/2009 | See Source »

...knew you were going to say mangoes. Yeah. Mangoes. Mangoes and fries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Child Journalist Damon Weaver | 8/19/2009 | See Source »

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