IDRLABS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Chancellor of Nazi Germany, Dated Eva Braun
Hitler: "Nietzsche ... doesn't have the same crystal-clear understanding as Schopenhauer."
John Tolland: "He was respectful, even diffident ... and very careful to adhere to the forms of address."
C.G. Jung: "The secret to Hitler's power is ... that his unconscious has exceptional access to his conscious."
Otto Strasser: "Hitler responds to the vibration of the human heart with the delicacy of a seismograph."
Brody: "I've spent a lifetime understanding and connecting to emotions - not only my own, but [those of] other people."
Christie: "A woman who doesn't lie is a woman without imagination and without sympathy."
Christie: "Very few of us are what we seem."
Christie: "Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity."
Christie: "Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more."
Vikander: "I vividly remember watching women in films when I was nine or 10, picturing them being what I'd be like as an adult. I had these real female crushes on certain actresses. And I'd watch them thinking, one day I'll be that. One day I'll be a woman. ... I get that wish to find your complete form."
Vikander: "I push myself hard. I don't like pain, exactly, but as a ballerina I lived in constant pain. At ballet school in Stockholm, I remember we had a locker where if someone had been to the doctor and gotten painkillers, we divided them among us. In a sense we were all addicted. After I quit dancing, for a while it felt strange not to be in pain. It was as if an old friend, not a good friend but a presence, always tagging along, had left me."
Job Titles:
- Comedic Writer and Actress
Poehler: "[Growing up] I knew I was funny."
Poehler: "I don't have many answers, just questions."
Ayn Rand: "Hume was merely the Bertrand Russell of his time."
Cumberbatch: "Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don't see beyond that."
Cumberbatch: "[I try to] be a kinder, considerate person."
Cumberbatch: "I love having context that's so much bigger than I can fathom. It's fantastic to realize how insignificant you are."
Jane Graham: "[He comes across] like a benign, dutiful priest ready to attend. His voice is ... authoritative [and] reassuring."
Elle Magazine: "He's struggling to walk a line between being genuine and people-pleasing ... veering between honesty and courtesy."
Franklin: "[In my youth] I was not content with being right but was ... rather insolent [in a discussion]. ... When someone asserted something ... [I] immediately showed some absurdity in his proposition."
Job Titles:
- Psychiatrist, Student of Freud, Mentor of Von Franz, Married to Emma Jung, Dated Toni Wolff, Maria Moltzer and Sabina Spielrein
Jung: "As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."
Jung: "The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but ... from inner necessity."
Jung: "Women are far more 'psychological' than men, who are usually satisfied with logic alone."
Sigmund Freud [in a personal letter to Jung:] "I have always felt that there is something about my personality ... that people find ... repelling, whereas all hearts open to you."
Job Titles:
- Leader of Nationalist China
Chiang: "If you sympathize with [civilians] in their sufferings ... then soldiers and civilians will form a closely knit body. ... There will be no cause for traitors to spring up, and the enemy will meet with defeat everywhere."
Day-Lewis: "My chief goal is to find a way to make [what I do] meaningful to other people."
Day-Lewis: "Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public. The paradox is that very often it's the sense of losing yourself in that public situation which is the drug."
Job Titles:
- Philosopher and Historian
Hume: "I have written on all sorts of subjects and yet I have no enemies, except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories and all the Christians."
Schwimmer: "I've got a real dark side. I'm very drawn to darkness. If I were given a choice between two films and one was dark and explored depraved [and] sick aspects of our culture, I would always opt for that."
Job Titles:
- Screenwriter and Author of 'Candy Girl'
Cody: "Life is funny, and it's depressing. At the same time."
Norton: "Here was someone with no ambition for fame or money. His ambition is to fundamentally change the way people look at the most intrinsic problem - poverty and health. I came away from the book feeling it had vaulted him to the ranks of the Gandhi s and Martin Luther King s. You read that and you go, 'What the hell am I doing with my life?'"
Job Titles:
- U.S. Secretary of State ( R )
Kissinger: "We tend to think that a problem is either economic or political or military. ... It is hard for us to understand that we have to be able to do military, political, economic and psychological things, all simultaneously."
Grant: "[Most films are] pretentious nonsense [or] commercial schlock."
Grant: "I rather hate acting. ... I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative, like writing a book. But ... I don't have the discipline."
Grant: "I'm much happier ad-libbing [than delivering scripted lines]. Much better. Much freer."
Job Titles:
- Comedian and Member of Monty Python
Cleese: "[Looking back on my education] I started to get angry. I thought: 'Why was I given this rubbish? This tenth-rate series of platitudes?'"
Cleese: "[My] message is: 'Work it out for yourselves, you're all individuals, and don't do what people tell you to do.'"
Cleese: "[Monty Python is a critique of] closed systems of thought. ... Systems by which, whatever evidence is given to a person, he merely adapts it. ... Once ... no contrary evidence can come in, I think it is very dangerous."
Radnor: "Obsessive worry and guilt are universal feelings."
Radnor: "The people in [my] movie have legitimate problems, and they learn to shift their perspective and find grace in the middle of those problems."
Radnor: "I accidentally read [a] book [Alicia Silverstone] gave me ... and that turned me into a vegetarian for about two years."
Job Titles:
- Author of 'War and Peace'
Tolstoy: "My vocation is to forward the recognition and the realization of the ideals of humanity."
Tolstoy: "Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness."
Da Vinci: "It is a great fault ... to repeat the same movements, faces, manners. [Why people do so] has often been a source of wonder to me."
Ahmadinejad: "[I like] talking and listening with a calm manner and a logical reasoning."
Ahmadinejad: "I am worried at the thought that [progress] would be sacrificed for the stagnant mentality, action-dodging and conservatism of some people."
Ahmadinejad: "What have the Zionists done ... that the U.S. administration [feels] obliged to blindly support [them]? Is it not because they have imposed themselves on ... the banking, financial, cultural and media sectors?"
Cambridge University Study: "[Ahmadinejad is] a personality of a different intellectual caliber, erudition ... and world outlook than [his predecessors]."
Perry: "To be a comedian, you have to have some darkness behind it."
Perry: "Being on autopilot is the worst thing possible."
Job Titles:
- Leader of the 9 / 11 Terrorist Group
[College classmate:] "Mohamed was an incredible human being. ... He could not have a black spot in his character. He was so solid and pure, good to the roots."
Job Titles:
- Economist, Anarchist and Libertarian, Student of Mises
Rothbard: "[To revolutionize society] you certainly don't have to convince the majority of the public, because most of the public will follow anything that happens."
Rothbard: "John Stuart Mill was the quintessence of soft rather than hardcore, a woolly-minded man of mush."
Job Titles:
- Actor and Awards Show Host
Unusually for ENTPs, Harris also has Dependent traits.
Job Titles:
- Founder and Leader of Al - Qaeda
Bin Laden: "Reciprocal treatment is a part of justice."
Job Titles:
- Actor, Dated Sarah Jessica Parker
Downey: "[With regards to my criminal record] I think I've been lucky, because my frequent appearances on Court TV have brought [my fame] to another level than 'just the actor guy.'"
Downey: "I love change."
GQ Magazine: "Conversations with Robert Downey Jr. are rarely linear. ... Sometimes it takes a moment to realize how one thing might relate to the next."
[His wife:] "He's this incredible amalgam of contradictory traits that is never boring. He's completely eccentric ... [and] has [a] kind of never-grow-up quality."
Fry: "Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth ... than humor is a guarantee of superficiality."
Fry: "I like to wake up each morning and not know what I think, that I may reinvent myself in some way."
Fry: "I have always felt unable to ... become part of the tribe. ... I have always sniped or joked from the sidelines."
Fry: "Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is."
Job Titles:
- Founder of Apple Along With Steve Jobs
Wozniak: "Everything's changing, everything's dynamic. ... You get this idea, and you get another idea, and this doesn't work out and you have to replace it with something else."
Wozniak: "All the best things that I did at Apple came from ... not having done it before, ever. Every single thing that we came out with that was really great, I'd never once done that thing in my life."
Wozniak: "Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged. ... Steve Jobs didn't really set the direction of my ... designs but he did the more important part of turning them into a product that would [sell]."
Wozniak: "[Steve Jobs] always saw a way to make a quick buck off my designs. ... The lofty talk came much further down the line."
Job Titles:
- Filmmaker and Member of Monty Python
Gilliam: "George Lucas and Steven Spielberg ... they only go so far, and their view of the world is rather simplistic."
Gilliam: "[I'm] trying to make people perceive the world in a different way. ... I don't want to reassure people. I want them to think and question the world they are living in. ... We live in a surreal world, and nobody notices it."
Job Titles:
- U.S. President and Author of the Declaration of Independence
Jefferson: "In stating rules ... I must not omit the important one of never entering into argument with another. I never saw an instance of disputants convincing each other by argument."