Brian Sutton-Smith Quotes
People who play are happier people. And people who don't have access to play tend to be depressed.
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.
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I used to never feel pressure to be creative; it's always just been a fun thing. And then suddenly, it's my job, and people are asking, 'Where's the record?'
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I grew up as a child living 'Red Dawn.' I was leaping out of spider holes, mowing down Russkies at the age of eight.
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My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God's law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.
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However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.
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I started dating older men, and I would fall in love with them. I thought they could teach me about life.
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It's wonderful that Poland is free again and there's open debate and people can pursue their interests. I'm all for it.
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Consumer groups fought hard to provide investor protections for 'special entities' such as pension funds, schools, and municipalities who purchase swaps. No comparable protection exists in the futures market.
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The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something.
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Music is more of a hobby to me than my hobbies, if that makes sense. I love music; my dad and brother were very musical, and music just happens to be one of my hobbies that became my vocation.
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People who play are happier people. And people who don't have access to play tend to be depressed.
