B. F. Skinner Quotes
We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word 'admire' then means 'marvel at.'
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The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
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Every time you come out with an album or a song, you want to feel like you're growing a bit in what you are and giving people something that they can feel.
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I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.
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Rain is good for me. I feel like I achieve clarity actually when it rains. The longer I have to sit and wait, the clearer my game becomes to me.
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We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
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I think that, a lot of times in Hollywood pictures, the reality, the messy reality of women's lives - it's avoided, because I think people are just afraid of it. There's a standard that women are set to, to try to keep everybody comfortable.
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I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.
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Bravo's 'Real Housewives' series isn't just entertainment for devoted fans like me - it's an entire all-absorbing universe of pride and passion.
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Leaks are always bad news.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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Famine is a consequence of poverty.
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I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.
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The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people.
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When you get in a job, the tendency is to say, 'I've got to know it. I've got to give direction to others. I'm in this job because I'm better and smarter.' I always took a different view, that the key was to identify the people who really knew and learn from them.
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It's not healthy for patents to be used to stop other people from doing business.
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We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word 'admire' then means 'marvel at.'
