Brian Sutton-Smith Quotes

Puritanical attempts to cure society by taking toys away from children are hypocritical and futile.

Brian Sutton-Smith

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ChildrenSocietyToysAwayCure

It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.

Jerome K. Jerome

I AmSufferingMedicineNeverDealt

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

Andrew Carnegie

FutureCareTake CareDutyWill

In high school, I was so painfully self-aware that how I thought of myself was probably very different from what other people thought of me. I thought of myself as just painfully awkward and dorky. I had a lot of hair and was kind of weird. I sang a lot in the hallways.

Amy Adams

MyselfSchoolPeopleMeHairWeird

I may be the prat in the hat, that's cool, but I drive an Aston Martin DB5.

Jay Kay

HatCoolDriveMayMartin

Nobody gets lucky all the time. Nobody can win all the time. Nobody's a robot. Nobody's perfect.

Johnny Weir

TimeWinPerfectNobodyLuckyRobot

All I can do is make sure Demetrious Johnson does the best he can on fight night and goes out and wins his fights.

Demetrious Johnson

BestFightNightI CanOutSure

I was a really big R.E.M. fan when I was like, in my freshman year of high school. I was a huge R.E.M. fan.

Corin Tucker

SchoolHigh SchoolYearHighBig

Quarterbacks can still have good bodies. I'm always conscious of the stereotype. I want to change what people think. There's a lot more to it than what you see on the field.

Colin Kaepernick

ChangeGoodPeopleThinkYouWant

A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

PeopleWorldProblemsAttentionKind

I have never had problems sleeping the night before a race.

Bobby Rahal

NightProblemsSleepingRaceNever

As far as I'm concerned, I make movies.

Asif Kapadia

MoviesMakeFarConcernedAs Far As

Animals feel pain and love and joy, just as humans. But in the industrialised meat, dairy, and egg industries, animals are denied everything that's natural and important to them. Some of them don't even feel the fresh air. They don't see the light.

Sylvie Guillem

LoveLightPainJoyFeelEgg

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