Brian Sutton-Smith Quotes
Adults spend $500 billion on games and leisure activity each year, and some adults lament that kids get $15 billion for toys.
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And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.
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I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!
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Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.
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I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
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I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
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With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.
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I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.
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'Breakfast at Tiffany's' isn't a great movie because Audrey Hepburn is brilliant and everyone else isn't. It's a great movie because everybody is fascinating, and she is at the center of it being amazing.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their fathers tried to pass down - like unquestioning respect for authority even when that might mean killing and dying for questionable or unjust causes such as the Vietnam War.
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When I was in college, I used to love to watch football on Sundays.
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The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.
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I'm not afraid of change, let's put it that way.
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I was good at math, math was my thing - but I was not nearly good enough to be an astrophysicist. I was way outta my league. I realized this very quickly.
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Love is everywhere, but if our eyes aren't open to see it, we miss out. Who among us hasn't missed out on love because we were looking for it in one package and it came in another? Our problem is rarely a lack of love so much as a mental block to our awareness of its presence.*
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When I was 12 or 13, my dad taught me a couple of different chords, and once I learned chords, I never learned to read music, but I learned tablature, like a lot of kids do, and I learned songs that had the chords I knew. It took me a long time to understand the upstroke of picking and strumming, but once I did, it all fell into place.
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When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.
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Mark Zuckerberg talks about telepathy, and Elon Musk has invested in trying to create a brain-machine interface.
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Adults spend $500 billion on games and leisure activity each year, and some adults lament that kids get $15 billion for toys.
