Daniel Levitin Quotes
Memory is fallible... not because of storage limitations so much as retrieval limitations.
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My wife and I were both very engaged in trying to defeat Trump. We knocked on doors in three states.
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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.
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I am very blessed.
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Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Listen, a lot of religions have fundamentalists.
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Poetry is the deification of reality.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Ryan Giggs will go down as the most successful British footballer of all time and I cannot see anyone ever overtaking him. He's on the brink of his 13th league title, after all.
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Anchormen shouldn't cry.
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I had a dream to become a mounted policewoman.
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I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.
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You must make sure that the majority of the people are not marginalized.
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Nothing perhaps has so retarded the reception of the higher conclusions of Geology among men in general, as ... the instinctive parsimony of the human mind in matters where time is concerned.
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In Australia I was seen as somebody who did only very modern, contemporary stuff. Then as soon as I went overseas I did two period pieces so it was like, 'When are you going to get out of the corsets?' And I was thinking I just got into them!
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Although it is true that by fate all things are forced and linked by a necessary and dominant reason, nevertheless the character of our minds is subject to fate in a manner corresponding to their nature and quality.
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Memory is fallible... not because of storage limitations so much as retrieval limitations.
