B. F. Skinner Quotes
I have to tell people that they are not responsible for their behavior. They're not creating it; they're not initiating anything. It's all found somewhere else. That's an awful lot to relinquish.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.
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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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To play this game, you've got to have heart, and a lot of guys don't have it. I can sit here and say we all do, but we all don't.
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I still wanted to see the family come back to life. And when that didn't transpire from the music, it kinda made me feel like I was bein' taken advantage of. I thought, when people heard '8 Diagrams,' they'd be like, 'Oh, Wu-Tang is a wrap now - they've lost it.' And I know that we didn't lose it.
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Don't expect your spouse to be perfect. He/she is only the dunya version of themselves. Their 'perfect' version is saved for jennah.
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Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.
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Reaching out to other people is important work. I am so pleased and honored that I'm getting the attention from the young people on social media. It's been missing.
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I have to tell people that they are not responsible for their behavior. They're not creating it; they're not initiating anything. It's all found somewhere else. That's an awful lot to relinquish.
