B. F. Skinner Quotes
I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die.
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The disappearance of MH370 has tested our collective resolve.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous.
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I'm in a constant state of gratitude.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory. I am afraid for my book, as it goes out alone into the world, just as I was frightened for Phoebe as I wrote and rewrote her story.
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Dyeing my hair has become a kind of addiction. I can't see myself as anything other than blond. Once you go blond, you stay blond forever.
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Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.
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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
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The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
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It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.
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What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
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My college friends call me Karu, which is the worst. Only in our country can we make a short form for a short name. But otherwise, I've never had a pet name all my life. But now, in official meetings, someone will call me KJo. And I'll judge that person in my head. Just call me Karan.
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I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.
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A 'sin' is something which is not necessary.
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A champion of the working class has never been known to die of overwork.
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It is phenomenal how fast a little toot of smack will take away the agony of withdrawal and most other kinds of pain. What it cannot take away it makes meaningless. You may still have a broken arm, but somehow it doesn't matter so much. The same is true for angst and anxiety. It cancels pain so hidden that you were unaware of its existence until it disappeared.
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Don't get me wrong. I don't take anything for granted. But it seems like the better I play, the more attention I get. And I can't get away from it. You play great, you get attention. But I hate attention. It is weird. I'm in a bind. The more you win, the more they come.
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I think sleep's really important. I value it as much as waking up and having a full day.
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I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die.
