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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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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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'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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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 never wanted to lose out on an acting job and wonder if I hadn't been trained enough.
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It would be nice at some point to do something that people expect to be good. Although then with high expectations come a lot more pressure.
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I was never a boy. I always was a girl in my heart, and although I was presented as a boy to the public, inside I was feminine. It was OK to be that because that's just who I was, and I can't change that. I was born that way.
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Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger.
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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.
