Albert Bandura Quotes
People behave agentically, but they produce theories that afford people very little agency.
Quotes to Explore
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
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Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.
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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
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The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
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I tend to have a lot of jokes about ex-girlfriends. They always ask me if they will be the subject of a joke, and I always tell them they won't. Unless they do something crazy. They all tend to, so you know where that goes. There are no closed doors. The 'art' will suffer.
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You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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I have a pair of Rodarte leggings. They're crazy, but I wore them for one day, and then by the end of the day they weren't tearing, but they were getting a little loose.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
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Horseback riding is my passion. Other than work. People can't imagine me getting dirty, but that's what I love about it.
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Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
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What do you mean you have my children at the police station? Why are my kids at the police station?
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In order for American Pie to have worked, you have to have a character who, even while he is humping a pie, the audience still likes.
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You can look at your dog and see that it's thinking and has strong feelings. And if it does, so do wolves. And if wolves do, so do elephants. People aren't the only beings that think and feel.
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He was an Italian kid traveling in China, and I'm of Italian decent with a fascination for China. So, I always felt this connection to him and lived vicariously through the travels of Marco Polo.
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It's true that everything happens for a reason, but it is always our responsibility to choose the reasons.
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People behave agentically, but they produce theories that afford people very little agency.
