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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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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I'm scared to see myself in 3D.
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I would love to persuade Christopher Bailey to get even just a section of Burberry that's, like, organic or free trade. I love him, he's a very good person and an amazing designer, and I have a lot of respect and time for him.
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You have to get under the hood and spend some quality time with someone to understand what they're really good at.
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If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
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You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.
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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.
