B. F. Skinner Quotes
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When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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Sometimes you're watching a great film actor, and if you stand 10 feet away from them, you're like, 'God, they're terrible. They're not doing anything.' And then you see the close-up, and it's so nuanced, and so much expression is happening. They were acting for that camera and for no one else.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.
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My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.
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The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had.
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If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about the character's.
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Growing up in Dumfries, I got no sun - I spent all my time in my room making records. When I came to America, it made me recognise the benefits of sunlight. Oh, and I also got a good haircut. I used to have a terrible haircut.
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Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.
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If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination? through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction.
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Edie Sedgwick had a cool style; she pushed the envelope for the time.
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You never know who you're talking to. Don't limit a young student's dream, because that's how we change the world.
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Kizzy wanted it all so bad her soul leaned half out of her body hungering after it, and that was what drove the goblins wild, her soul hanging out there like an untucked shirt.
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Keith's [Briffa] series...differs in large part in exactly the opposite direction that Phil's [Jones] does from ours. This is the problem we all picked up on (everyone in the room at IPCC was in agreement that this was a problem and a potential distraction/detraction from the reasonably consensus viewpoint we'd like to show w/ the Jones et al and Mann et al series).
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
