D. B. Sweeney Quotes
I don't like the NFL, where I think it's a problem: some guy scores a touchdown, now he's got some kind of dance that he planned. To me, I just want to change the channel.
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I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines - it has fashions; things change.
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We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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The fundamental vision hasn't changed. What does change is how you get there, because there are still problems you have to figure out.
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I have worked steadily since I started, but things are very hard for women and need to change.
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I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting.
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My dad is a really funny guy, and we would make jokes about my leukemia. When my friends would come over, we would joke about it, too.
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The biggest influence? I've had several at different times – but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.
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I was in Charlotte, N.C., when they launched the NBA team there, the Charlotte Hornets. And the first guy to roll into town was Carolina native Michael Jordan.
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The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know?
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You have to ask yourself if you want to be the kind of actress who's interesting, or the kind of actress who's meant to play the pretty-but-uninteresting wife of a chubby guy on a network sitcom.
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I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes.
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People assume that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
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If you want to change a country, you're going to be bumped every now and then.
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The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time.
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Let the message go out - a new generation has taken charge of Labour which is optimistic about our country, optimistic about our world, optimistic about the power of politics. We are optimistic and together we will change Britain.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
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I used to make fun of the kids in school who acted or went to dance class.
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Life is found in the dance between your deepest desire and your greatest fear.
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Among many other weighty objections to the Measure, it has been suggested, that it has a tendency to introduce religious disputes into the Army, which above all things should be avoided, and in many instances would compel men to a mode of Worship which they do not profess.
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We need to encourage young women to find what they love to do. That is a very valuable pursuit - more so than the pursuit of a boyfriend. When you have that core, you bring that core to every aspect of your life.
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We the Moderns are like dwarves perched on the shoulders of giants the Ancients, and thus we are able to see more and farther than the latter.
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I don't like the NFL, where I think it's a problem: some guy scores a touchdown, now he's got some kind of dance that he planned. To me, I just want to change the channel.
