Brian Sutton-Smith Quotes
What many teachers observe as violent behavior is often really just playful aggression.
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Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality.
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It didn't help my career to be living in Appalachia.
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If you can be a good example to other people, why not try to be that person? I have a bit of a people pleaser in me, but not so much so that it's out of control.
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The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.
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Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
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You have to find the right situation, and you have to be in that right mindset where you can give everything you have to that. Because whatever I do, I want to be the best at. I want to be the best husband. I want to be the best father.
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Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.
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Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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It's physically hard for me to work. I start to break down, physically. My joints start. I get weepy eyes. I don't sleep well. I was never a hard worker, I guess. So the voiceover work ethic is really great for me - couple days a month, two hours a day.
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Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different.
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Nicole Richie invited me to her birthday party, and it was at Michael Jackson's Neverland!
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Every film is a puzzle really, from an editorial point of view.
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I've been doing extremely dangerous activities for a long time, but I've been lucky enough to have survived so far. However, sooner or later we all die... and, if that's the case, I want to die doing what I love to do the most. That's how I view death.
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I love mystery novels... I love seeing the dramas played out in academic departments, particularly English departments. I started reading these when I was going up for tenure.
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You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.
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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.
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My dad taught me never to be afraid of what's on the other side of the mountain.
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Comedy is basically self-deprecation.
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I want to race as long as I'm having fun, it's competitive and healthy, and who knows when that, you know, date comes when that's not happening anymore.
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I understood that I had arrived there full of pride and realized that—in good faith, certainly, with affection—I had made that whole journey mainly to show her what she had lost and what I had won. But she had known from the moment I appeared, and now, risking tensions with her workmates, and fines, she was explaining to me that I had won nothing, that in the world there is nothing to win, that her life was full of varied and foolish adventures as much as mine, and that time simply slipped away without any meaning, and it was good just to see each other every so often to hear the mad sound of the brain of one echo in the mad sound of the brain of the other.
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I've lived three lifetimes in my short time.
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The Knicks left me open a lot of times the last time we played them, and I was just making sure I took the shots that were there.
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What many teachers observe as violent behavior is often really just playful aggression.
