B. F. Skinner Quotes
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I've always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.
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I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters.
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Let me clarify this very definitely. This is not an authoritarian organization.
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I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.
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I feel very, very blessed.
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I have a very small public.
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Desire is the very essence of man.
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I'm in a loft and the kitchen is in the very center of the apartment. The whole place revolves around it.
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I'm very interested in science.
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I draw a very clear distinction between populism and democracy.
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In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.
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Even though he's a third-generation San Franciscan, my father's very European in some ways, and he loves wine.
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I'm not a very fast-paced person.
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I'm a very competitive person.
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I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on.
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I am very blessed.
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Everything I make starts very personally.
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If you give up on trying to change larger structures and just go off on what some would say is a personal indulgence or being a survivalist, it can be seen as incredibly negative or pessimistic. But the other way to think of it is this: through manifesting the way we live and acting as if it's normal, you're defending yourself against depression and dysfunction, but you're also providing a model that others can copy. And that is absolutely about bringing large-scale change.
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I actually feel like the phrase 'big in Japan' is not appropriate for me. The reason is that there are more people who sympathize with my practice in America than there are domestically in Japan.
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I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
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New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood.
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I think any of us who have been involved in the mission of Iraq have developed a great deal of affection for the Iraqi people and are emotionally invested in what we think is a vital mission... So I think any of my contemporaries would welcome the opportunity to go back and make a contribution to this extraordinarily important mission.
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I'm very pessimistic.
