Edwin Boring Quotes
The gift of professional maturity comes only to the psychologist who knows the history of his science.
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.
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If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.
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You were born as the one you are.
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I don't believe in politics; I don't understand any of it.
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I try to keep an even keel.
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Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop.
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In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration of energy and attention says something that other media cannot say.
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I think sometimes when you want attention, you can wear sunglasses, and people are like, 'Who is that?'
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When you're playing music through the streets of London at 2 o'clock in the morning, there's something so cool and magical about that. It takes you to a special place very quickly.
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Man is a rational animal – so at least I have been told. Throughout a long life, I have looked diligently for evidence in favor of this statement, but so far I have not had the good fortune to come across it, though I have searched in many countries spread over three continents.
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Running water never grows stale. So you just have to 'keep on flowing.'
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Palabras que me dijeron en otros tiempos, las oigo hoy.
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I also paint and enjoy acrylic medium; some of my close friends have paintings I did for them.
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Pretty much every plant and animal alive today is the result of eons of natural cross-breeding.
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I've just had a little boy, and my wife and I called him Elliott because 'E.T.' sort of saved my life because that film is absolutely about something being out there that's greater than yourself.
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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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The first book advance I got was paid out in thirds. And over time, as I've had different deals, the advances get chopped up into ever-smaller parcels.
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Every striker has their way of playing and their strengths and a different team behind them. That is very important.
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Our vulnerability to Russia or any other foreign power is directly related to how divided, partisan, dysfunctional our political process is. That's the thing that makes us vulnerable.
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The gift of professional maturity comes only to the psychologist who knows the history of his science.
