Art Briles Quotes
I want people like Rocky. I like underdogs; I’ve been one all my life. I like people who take it as a challenge when they’re told they can’t do something. This whole situation is a little like that.
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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Brain cells are normally not sensitive to light. So by introducing light-sensitive proteins into specific types of neurons, we can now selectively control that specific type of neuron by shining light in the brain.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.
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Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
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Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.
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You put a lot of pressure on your defenders to be able to hold the fort when you go forward.
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I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.
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Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa. For example, I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.
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The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.
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It feels so good to tell the truth.
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I always find myself gravitating toward stories of transformation, and one of those periods is teenage life. When teenagers are figuring out who they are and have one foot in childhood and the other in adulthood - I think that's a really mythic moment to tell stories about.
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We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.
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I have no disciple. I am the servant of the servant of Rama.
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The central idea of the philosophy of behaviorism, that behavior and the mind have an entirely materialist basis subject to experimental analysis, is fundamentally sound.
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Mis verdades duran poco en mí: menos que las ajenas.
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I wouldn't call myself a recluse, but I am quiet and reserved.
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If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
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We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels.
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If the material is challenging, it forces you to challenge yourself when handling it.
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Being vulnerable is allowing yourself to trust. That's hard for a lot of people to do. They feel a lot more secure if they kind of put walls around themselves. Then they don't have to trust anybody but themselves. But to allow you to trust not only yourself but trust others means - is what's required to be vulnerable, and to have that kind of trust takes courage.
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I want people like Rocky. I like underdogs; I’ve been one all my life. I like people who take it as a challenge when they’re told they can’t do something. This whole situation is a little like that.
