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 think shoppers are looking for newness and creativity. Look at C. Wonder, for instance. They're dancing in our stores. We don't believe in retail like retail was done in the past. We believe in disrupting the whole environment, offering them amazing value in an amazing package of fun, excitement and whimsy.
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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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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.
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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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The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.
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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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I hate people who over intellectualize. It bores me deeply.
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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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I have a degree in European history, which didn't necessarily have any direct impact on my career, but I'm grateful I studied something other than acting in college.
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Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
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Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
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Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.
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The gift of professional maturity comes only to the psychologist who knows the history of his science.
