Daniel Levitin Quotes
Memory is fallible... not because of storage limitations so much as retrieval limitations.
Daniel Levitin
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My wife and I were both very engaged in trying to defeat Trump. We knocked on doors in three states.
J. B. Pritzker
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When I was in high school, my parents had this power over me - if I ever lied or got caught doing something that I shouldn't be doing, then I would no longer be able to go to L.A. and continue to pursue the acting thing.
Dan Byrd
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Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.
Jack Nicholson
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
D. H. Lawrence
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When we were doing 'The West Wing,' the hardest thing about doing 'The West Wing' was being compared to yourself. You go out there and want every episode to be as good as your best episode. I wrote 88 episodes of 'The West Wing,' and when you do that, one of them is going to be your 88th best, so your 88th best better be pretty good.
Aaron Sorkin
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I never thought I would actually become a professional actor. I just kept going with it. One thing led to another.
Laura Harrier
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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
Wayne Dyer
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Listen, a lot of religions have fundamentalists.
Youssou N'Dour
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Poetry is the deification of reality.
Edith Sitwell
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The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.
C. S. Forester
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Our Great Lakes, harbors, ports, and rivers provide not only vital resources for us to live, but an entire maritime way of life for so many people. The least we can do is protect it, and the way of life it provides for so many.
Candice S. Miller
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Every time I step onto the field, whether people like it or not, I'm not trying to play dirty - I'm just playing tough.
Carli Lloyd
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Of the creative spirits that flourished in Concord, Massachusetts, it might be said that Hawthorne loved men but felt estranged from them, Emerson loved ideas even more than men, and Thoreau loved himself.
Leon Edel
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I decided to do graduate studies in virology at Stanford University in California because it had a hospital, which made working on clinical applications easier.
Kathleen Rubins
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How is the government going to run without people like us? We make 35 percent of the bread in this country, and that much of the margarine, and cooking oil, and all the other things.
Dwayne Andreas
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Do you know the solo at the end of 'Why Don't You Love Me Any More?' that sounds like a chainsaw breaking through? That is what I can't do with my voice. That's when you hear how painful this has been to me.
John Grant
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Booze really was medicinal, after a near-death experience. Holding a drink in both hands and letting it corrode the topmost layer of his mouth and throat, Laurence felt a spiritual relationship with Bushmills.
Charlie Jane Anders
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Memory is fallible... not because of storage limitations so much as retrieval limitations.
Daniel Levitin
