B. F. Skinner Quotes
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A common mistake people make regarding dining rooms is to buy a matching set of table and chairs, which can be monotonous. I like to mix guest chairs in one style and head chairs in another for a more interesting, dynamic look.
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You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
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I like talking one-on-one to everyone. I find it really sort of cathartic and interesting to hear people's opinions.
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The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.
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What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.
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If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
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For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.
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How well you eat and rest helps you analyse your energy reserves.
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There's nothing worse than a director who feels more like a cop than a comrade, so I try to never give orders or create an environment where it's 'my way or the highway,' because actually allowing talented people to bring their originality and insight always brings more depth and complexity than if everyone has to do what you tell them to!
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I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.
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Any trend that is developed too fast and is disposed right away is not going to have a lasting impression on the culture, you know?
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No one teaches you how to be a famous person; no one teaches you how to be a role model. It's something you have to do on your own.
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Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.
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The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism.
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You don't need Beanie Sigel in the building with a pre-perception that this crazy dude might do anything.
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Make big pots of soups, stews and chilis - they stretch a buck, and you can live off them for days!
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Attraction is what happens between you. It's not universal. And it's not conventional. And thank God for that.
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The only way you know what it is to be a boxer is to be one.
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When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.
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I was always doing something physical. My brothers and I used to have handstand contests. We'd walk around the projects on our hands and see who could get the farthest. I was always playing football with them, basketball or racing in the street.
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The world is poor because her fortune is buried in the sky and all her treasure maps are of the earth.
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Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed her. My responsibility is to the reader. The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
