Charles Scott Sherrington Quotes

Further study of central nervous action, however, finds central inhibition too extensive and ubiquitous to make it likely that it is confined solely to the taxis of antagonistic muscles.

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• We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'

  

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• When I was in high school, I was a bad kid and a good student.

  

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• Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.

  

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• I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.

  

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• Orange juice from concentrate is labeled. Food coloring Red #5 is labeled. Fish are labeled as to whether they've been previously frozen. To a consumer, there's no plausible reason why these factors should be on a food ingredient label while the presence of GMOs shouldn't be.

  

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• I lose film roles because I'm a person who doesn't keep quiet about certain things. But if my heart tells me something is wrong, I'm going to go and do something about it.

  

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• Interior design is a business of trust.

  

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• I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.

  

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• I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.

  

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• Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.

  

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• I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.

  

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• Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.

  

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• For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.

  

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• Now all my teachers are dead except silence.

  

  W. S. Merwin
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• I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.

  

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• I would love to direct - or try my hand at it, anyway.

  

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• I believe in something that maybe can be defined as the God in one's heart, in the heart of every human being, but not in a God who sits on high looking down on us and taking care of us and whom we bother with things trivial and weighty so that he will be good to us and arrange things for us here.

  

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• If you do what you were born to do, I think you will never grow old.

  

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• Self-efficacy is the belief in one's capabilities to organize and execute the sources of action required to manage prospective situations.

  

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• No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.

  

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• I will say that anyone who supports Scottish independence should go to Athens. Because nothing works. It is a disaster. It is a ruined, dirty place where people do not have money or future prospects. The day one after independence, Scotland would be worse.

  

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• Sometimes I'm really funny, sometimes I'm quiet, sometimes I'm shy, but I'm constantly changing.

  

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• Further study of central nervous action, however, finds central inhibition too extensive and ubiquitous to make it likely that it is confined solely to the taxis of antagonistic muscles.

  

  Charles Scott Sherrington
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