Rhys Darby Quotes
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When student performance shows increases on test scores, that improvement is not associated with an increase in 'fluid intelligence' - that is, using logical thinking and problem solving in novel situations, rather than recalling previously learned facts and skills.
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Behavior, cognitive, and other personal factors, and environmental influences all operate interactively as determinants of each other.
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I can't do the whole run but I am able to start the race and I will be there at the end when winners cross the line.
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I think a lot it was the theology, that the road to Jerusalem runs through Baghdad, that somehow if we broke apart the rejectionist states, like Iraq, then the whole Middle East would reconfigure itself into a more favorable environment for democracy and Israel and us.
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However unwillingly a person who has a strong opinion may admit the possibility that his opinion may be false, he ought to be moved by the consideration that, however true it may be, if it is not fully, frequently, and fearlessly discussed, it will be held as a dead dogma, not a living truth.
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We pass by common objects or persons without noticing them; but the keen eye detects and notes types everywhere and among all classes.
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I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.
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A meeting between two people who complete each other, who are made for each other, borders already, in my opinion, on a miracle.
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Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.
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Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
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The best thing I ever heard was in the '60s. I heard Jimi Hendrix play 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow' after a rehearsal, and it was brilliant.
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Because it is so hard, in any life, to believe in what you can’t fully understand.
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It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.
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There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.
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He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
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I would say my return to my faith is - it's a very personal thing.
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Many have referred to [Lewis] Carroll's rhymes as nonsense, but in my childhood world — Los Angeles in the '50s — they made perfect sense.
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I've always been into monsters.
