B. F. Skinner Quotes
I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.B. F. Skinner
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Last Wednesday, I stupidly dropped my iPhone in the bath, and my life has sort of spiraled almost out of control.
Patrick Stewart -
You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.
Daisy Fuentes -
My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.
Eddie Redmayne -
All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
Tammy Baldwin -
Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
Camilla Lackberg -
On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.
Otto Schily
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No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.
Edmund Morgan -
No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
Garth Brooks -
I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.
Zack Snyder -
Second-generation Muslims who have lived all their lives in Europe are turning up among the suicide bombers and terrorists.
Pat Buchanan -
And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
Aaron Sorkin -
The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
Iain McGilchrist
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I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world's most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He's a good guy.
Wendi McLendon-Covey -
There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
M. F. K. Fisher -
Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.
Dana Spiotta -
My coach keeps telling me to say I'm not going to retire. I should just go through the motions and see what I feel every year and see if I really want to do it, but personally, I want to do it, but my coach says just take your time, don't rush.
Usain Bolt -
I have such a crush on Shirley Manson. I think she's the coolest thing.
Garret Dillahunt -
When I get into bed at night, I hope I don't get into it alone!
Calvin Klein
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And, again, I'm the first one to say that I'm not going be successful at everything.
David Schwimmer -
When you play against different people from all walks of life you can't do the same thing against every player defensively or offensively. You have to change up the way you go at a player.
Oscar Robertson -
When learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foesFirst reared the stage, immortal Shakespeare rose;Each change of many-colored life he drew,Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new:Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign,And panting Time toiled after him in vain.
Samuel Johnson -
Art's a very metaphysical activity. It's something that enriches the parameters of your life, the possibilities of being, and you touch transcendence and you change your life. And you want to change the life of others, too. That's why people are involved with art.
Jeff Koons -
Today's terrorists do not share a particular ethnic, educational or socioeconomic background.
Bennie Thompson -
I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
B. F. Skinner