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.'
Magic Johnson
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
Pamela Stephenson
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
Adam Jones
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A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.
Randa Haines
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I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.
Vince McMahon
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Getting to do 'December Songs' in a cabaret-style format was so interesting because it's like a one-woman song cycle that actually tells a story. It feels like a theatrical experience more than a cabaret because I didn't talk in between. We went from one song to the next, nine songs in a row - bam - I told the story in half an hour.
Laura Osnes
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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.
Madeline Kahn
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A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.
Dakota Johnson
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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.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.
Wanda Sykes
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Most people don't want to get married. Being married, that's a responsibility.
Lamar Odom
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I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body.
Tammy Faye Bakker
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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.
Sam Brownback
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
Baruch Spinoza
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I would hate to be on a plane every day.
Tatjana Patitz
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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.
Kate Micucci
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I like having a good time. It's probably my mother's Brazilian genes in me - party, party.
Francesca Annis
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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.
Said Sayrafiezadeh
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I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I believe that, by directing, it makes me a better executive as well.
John Lasseter
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In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enlightenment at that moment. The more cheerful, happy, contented, and satisfied I am feeling, the more aware I am of my deep connection to Spirit.
Wayne Dyer
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Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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It is because we are predominantly purposeful beings that we are perpetually correcting our immediate sensations. But men are free not to be utilitarianly purposeful. They can sometime be artists, for example. In which case they may like to accept the immediate sensation uncorrected, because it happens to be beautiful.
Aldous Huxley
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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.
B. F. Skinner