B. F. Skinner Quotes

I may say that the only differences I expect to see revealed between the behavior of the rat and man (aside from enormous differences of complexity) lie in the field of verbal behavior.

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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.
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I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.
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Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.
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A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.
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I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
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It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.
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Most people don't want to get married. Being married, that's a responsibility.
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I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body.
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Before 9/11, our defense policy was based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights; we will never be an aggressor.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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I would hate to be on a plane every day.
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I've had times where I've joked, like, 'I'm going to move to Vermont and become a painter.' And sometimes that joke felt like, 'Oh that's a good idea.' But it was only, like, a daydream for a moment to, like, escape.
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I like having a good time. It's probably my mother's Brazilian genes in me - party, party.
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In many ways I'm similar to Barack Obama, who also has a strange name but was raised by a white American mother. His background is far more complicated than his name would suggest. Furthermore, the fact that I was a child during the hostage crisis has caused me to equate being Iranian with being alienated.
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You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.
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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
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What we learned several years ago was that one of our weaknesses would be if we didn't develop enough people with the know-how to run our company, it would come to the point where we would just stop.
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn: From time to time my heart is like some oak Whose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.
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I'm a fan of Bradley Cooper's.
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You have to try to grow between every fight: get back in the gym and keep working hard and find the areas that you need to work on. See what you did wrong and work on it.
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It's really humbling and gratifying to see that people are finally realizing that we are talented and we have things to say and that our stories are just like your stories. There's no reason that anybody from Wisconsin or Turkey can't relate to 'Atlanta.'
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I may say that the only differences I expect to see revealed between the behavior of the rat and man (aside from enormous differences of complexity) lie in the field of verbal behavior.