B. F. Skinner Quotes
A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest.
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By the end of 2008, clearly the Al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the Al Qaeda's mind, they were defeated.
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The directors told me they were going to recruit good players with whom I could play decent football. Marko Marin, Oscar and me, we like to have the ball at our feet. Juan Mata likes the ball; so does Ramires.
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The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.
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I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.
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I have a great office.
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I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
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Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.
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Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.
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So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
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I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.
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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
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It's the 21st century. It's untenable to suggest that women had no significance and no interest and that just because they didn't vote they had no relevance to the course of our history.
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Government doesn't have to come up with new killer features on its own. It has to step aside and let others come up with them.
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Growing up in Australia, space exploration wasn't something I was too aware of.
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You had better refuse a favor gracefully, than to grant it clumsily. Manner is all, in everything: it is by manner only that you can please, and consequently rise. All your Greek will never advance you from secretary to envoy, or from envoy to ambassador; but your address, your manner, your air, if good, very probably may.
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Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
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It's tough for people to get into business, especially a small business.
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I wouldn't feel comfortable talking to someone I didn't know very well and, beyond that person, a readership of X millions, about things I think are private.
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It is a surprising fact that those who object most violently to the manipulation of behaviour nevertheless make the most vigorous effort to manipulate minds.
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A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest.
