B. F. Skinner Quotes
The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.
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All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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I have fun going on Twitter and the Internet. I feel safe and comfortable, and I wish everyone could feel that way.
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Until you've been to Cannes, it's hard to describe to someone the magnitude of that festival.
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When I first moved to New York, I wanted to be a dancer. I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence. I never tapped into nightlife; all I knew was dancers. We went to bed early and got up early and went to free concerts at the Lincoln Center and Shakespeare in the Park.
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It's true that youth is wasted on the young and, if I had my life to live over again, I suppose I would pay more attention to my career. I would make better choices. But, in my defence, I would say that I have three wonderful children, and that's something I am very proud of.
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I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.
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Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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I think at first the Flume project really started out as an online thing. I used Facebook and SoundCloud, and I think we got lucky because it felt like a bit of a golden age of those social media platforms. So I managed to create quite a solid fan base online.
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I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.
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My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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If I could meet Quentin Tarantino, I don't know if I'd just ask him one question. I'd probably milk it into, like, 500 questions.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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All of my songs are autobiographical.
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I didn't just get to 75 years by tiptoeing. I had to work hard sometimes.
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Might I be ridiculous? Might my career in music be laughable? Yeah, that's possible, but that's certainly not my intention.
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I felt an obligation even then to write a song that people would sing in the pub or on a demonstration. That is why I would like to compose songs for the revolution.
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If speculative ideas can not be tested, they're not science; they don't even rise to the level of being wrong.
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The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.
