Edwin Boring Quotes
Introspectionism got its ism because the protesting new schools needed a clear and stable contrasting background against which to exhibit their novel features. No proponent of introspection a the basic method of psychology ever called himself an introspectionist.
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Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an autograph for her?' And some people send me stuff. I don't mind it at all: as a sportswoman, you owe them because they support you.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.
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Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
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I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.
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I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'
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If I get in a relationship, it's always for the long-term; if not, I don't see the point.
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It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
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I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally.
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It's like that with what sort of ideas people outside of the band have of HIM. They all see it through a different lens as well which is beautiful. Hopefully, it makes it an endless topic of conversation.
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Visually, a lot of the electronic artists have really interesting video and interesting things like that.
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If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job.
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As teenagers, we all see ourselves as outsiders... and it's very easy to look at other people who are more popular, who have more pocket money, and it makes you feel even more like an outsider, and it does shape who you become as a person.
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There's just something about that cold rush that I know I hate and a lot of other swimmers hate.
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Sorry for the tune up between time, but what the hell, cowboys are the only ones who stay in tune, anyway...
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There are unfortunately not a few good professional physicists who still think about the world as if space and time had an absolute meaning.
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I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.
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I think I drift toward sad love songs.
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And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents - I mean, it's gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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I've always kind of lived my life to be as much as possible a positive role model for children.
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I've had pretty good success with Stan (Musial) by throwing him my best pitch and backing up third.
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We eat the same breakfast every day. We are like robots. I always do two eggs over easy with turkey bacon - we enjoy the taste of it more than pork - and avocado. I carve it all up into a bowl so it's like a slop, and I load it with salt and pepper and Cholula.
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I wrote 'Pumped Up Kicks' when I began to read about the growing trend in teenage mental illness. I wanted to understand the psychology behind it because it was foreign to me.
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Introspectionism got its ism because the protesting new schools needed a clear and stable contrasting background against which to exhibit their novel features. No proponent of introspection a the basic method of psychology ever called himself an introspectionist.
