B. F. Skinner Quotes
You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.
Quotes to Explore
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Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.
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You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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We've got our football where no one wears anything and the guys are in little shorts and they beat the crap out of each other, and they can catch it and they can kick it, and it's the only place it's played in the world.
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So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was being made, not in the White House, and certainly because of that, not in the Congress.
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You have to be yourself.
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And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.
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There are parallels between the music and film worlds, but they're really very different. I feel like they're just two different ways to channel my creativity.
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
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I don't like controversy.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.
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How does one measure the success of a museum?
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It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer than with a man. You know you can say, 'Don't grab me there: That's where my cellulite is'!
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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Sometimes words are harder than blows.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity (in the Harvard sense) of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we’re dead we’re dead?
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I was scared when I went to Conde Nast. I had heard horror stories about how they used you up and then spit you out and went on. But there was this great history of photography that had been done there.
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I never burned down synagogues. It was a revolution, and Russians burned churches during their revolution. If there are many different nationalities in a country, the leadership should be divided among people by percentages. In finance, press, radio - the Jews had taken over positions. That feeling existed before Hitler.
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It is a precarious undertaking to say anything reliable about aims and intentions.
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TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
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You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.
