James J. Gibson Quotes
The human young must learn to perceive these affordances, in some degree at least, but the young of some animals do not have time to learn the ones that are crucial for survival.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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I'm very open-minded.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.
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I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.
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Mister Cee's a legend, man.
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If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
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In the tech world, you can reel off great products in several ways. You can have the once-in-a-lifetime gut instincts of a Steve Jobs. You can have the brainiac coding skills of a Bill Gates, Larry Page, or Sergey Brin. Or, I learned, you can have the deep intellectual curiosity and stubbornness of a Jeff Bezos.
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Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
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It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.
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I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.
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May the Lord our God prepare us for every event, then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter.
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My three best friends get me through everything: I need cute jeans, my kids are driving me crazy, I'm throwing a party, whatever. They keep me dialed in.
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The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it.
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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
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I have always been a pretty big fan of ghost stories.
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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.
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Any new technology, if it's used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that's more a question of the politics of the technology.
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I began to write in an enclosed, self-confident literary culture. The poet's life stood in a burnished light in the Ireland of that time. Poets were still poor, had little sponsored work, and could not depend on a sympathetic reaction to their poetry. But the idea of the poet was honored.
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When you're in your 40s, you become more conscious of life being of limited duration and that you need to create memories and go on little adventures from time to time.
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The human young must learn to perceive these affordances, in some degree at least, but the young of some animals do not have time to learn the ones that are crucial for survival.
