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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The thing I love about vampires that I find so fascinating is that, unlike other sci-fi creations, they aren't monsters from the get-go, they're human beings first... and so what kind of human you are would dictate what kind of vampire you would be.
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Imagination creates some big monsters.
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I obsess and fantasize about whatever attractive men may be on the flight. Though these days the pickings are lean. No one flies regularly anymore but fugly, bland businessmen, and hideous families with no-neck monsters for children.
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If you go through all the structures and features of this emerging European monster you will notice that it more and more resembles the Soviet Union.
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I've always been into monsters.
