B. F. Skinner Quotes
I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.
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I can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.
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I've had Botox. It hurts a lot, but I like it.
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I wouldn't mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.
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There's something really fun about being scared, and I guess that was at least part of why I wanted to film certain scenes from my new book, 'Skeleton Creek.'
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Sometimes I still go round the house making weird noises and stuff, so in that aspect, I haven't grown up!
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Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
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Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
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The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.
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You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be Christian!
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I have almost no capacity for worship. What I have is the knowledge that it is my duty to worship and worship only what I believe to be true.
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The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
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I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
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I don't believe in speaking ill of the dead, even when it's the truth.
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I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.
