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B. F. Skinner Quotes

I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: psychologist
Nationality: american
Birth: March 20, 1904 - August 18, 1990

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Business Words People Believe Stand

You're certain to get a decision in a trial.

Decision You Get Trial Certain

One of the problems in the biotech world is the lack of women in leadership roles, and I'd like to see that change by walking the walk.

Jennifer Doudna

Leadership Change Women Walk World

I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale.

Love Time Words Poetry You Choice

I was born in Edinburgh, in Scotland, a few days after the end of the Second World War. Both my parents had left school at a very young age, unwillingly in my father's case. Yet both had deep effects on my education, my father influencing me toward measurement and mathematics, and my mother toward writing and history.

Education Father Mother Age History

Pop concerts create an audience for Pops concerts, not an audience for classical symphonic concerts.

Create Audience Pop Concerts Pops

One thing I cannot stand is when people say, 'Hi, how are you?' and they don't wait to hear how I am. They're just going through the motions. I say to people: 'Keep it human. Keep it alive. Don't turn into a robot.' You have to hear what the other person is saying clearly.

I Am People Wait Saying Stand You

I'm a big French fry girl. I try to avoid them, but sometimes you just need to indulge, so I go for it!

Girl You Go Sometimes Go For It Try

Filmmaking was the way I could write characters and not have to give them up to anybody.

Filmmaking Way Write Up Give Them

Putting a face on a gay is important. We are just people.

People Face Gay Important Just

I came to graduate school at Harvard University in 1954. My thesis supervisor, Julian Schwinger, had about a dozen doctoral students at a time. Getting his ear was as difficult as it was rewarding. I called my thesis 'The Vector Meson in Elementary Particle Decays', and it showed an early commitment to an electroweak synthesis.

Sheldon Lee Glashow

Time Commitment School Early Harvard

Sometimes, I feel the reason I have become a star beyond my films is that I am politically incorrect.

I Am Feel Sometimes Beyond Become

It's hard to tell what is even mainstream anymore because there's so many platforms now. And they're all topics of conversation.

Conversation Now Hard Tell Because

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