B. F. Skinner Quotes
A vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the production of the most trivial conveniences and comfort.
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I'm cranky.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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I loved Carl Perkins, Jerry lee Lewis... not only were they personal friends.
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Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.
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I love snacks, but I'm kind of growing out of them. I'm getting into fruit and Clif Bars.
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Any club is important. All Latin music movements are born in clubs. There is no better research than going to a club. If your music works, it will bounce up.
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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
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I have two sisters, and we are the best of friends.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.
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If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.
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I went up for the first time when I was 18. It's a great place - I love L.A.; I mean, in Ireland it just rains all the time, it's crap weather, so it's nice to go to L.A. where it's just sunshine every day, and then it's kinda easier to live a kinda healthy lifestyle.
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My favorite sport, frankly, is college football. I'm a college football junkie, even though I'm associated with golf and like golf and have played it all my life.
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I just want to do great work: work that inspires people... To know that you are given this gift in life and that you can gift other people with it, that's the most rewarding thing for me.
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I grew up with a pretty tough mom. She was a self-appointed neighborhood watchdog, and if she saw that any of the local boys were up to no good, she would scold them on the spot. Although she is only 5 feet 2, she was famous in our neighborhood for intimidating men three times her size and getting them to do the right thing.
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I thought, I need to reinvent myself. I want every day of life to be wonderful, fascinating, interesting, creative. And what am I gonna do to make that happen?
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I think there was a lot competition in the rock scene.
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The days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism.
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The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.
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I am not a bomber. I'm more about precision and being target-oriented. I have to rely on all parts of my game firing if I'm going to win.
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The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion.
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A vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the production of the most trivial conveniences and comfort.
