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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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 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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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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I'm not afraid of change, let's put it that way.
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.
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I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.
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All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.
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I used to have a very difficult childhood because I was always the tallest girl in school, and everybody was staring at me and saying, 'You are very different.' Now, different is good.
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Twitter means all my friends are in my computer. All my ideas are in my computer. I can do whatever I want in there; I'm kind of... bionic.
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Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.
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I think we'll all keep pushing each other, which is a great thing.
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I pack on mass quickly when I lift.
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It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization.
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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.
