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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If we would spend on education half the amount of money that we currently lavish on sports and entertainment, we could provide complete and free education for every student in this country.
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I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn't, in reality, do what they did on TV.
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A kitchen without an ironing board? Are you kidding? It's un-American. It's like Simon without Garfunkel.
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My career has been very strange. My career is like a heart monitor. I get involved in a good project now and then to keep things going. And then I make things that I work on that I hope are going to be good so I can make a living and keep a roof over the heads of those little monsters I have in my house.
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I've always been into monsters.