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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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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Listen, a lot of religions have fundamentalists.
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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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When I first got signed, I bought a vintage guitar from the 1930s for £1000. I've bought a £400 SLR camera, too, which was quite extravagant.
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The boy had to pay the piper, so they all stay in fear of the neighborhood sniper
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But bowed his comely headDown as upon a bed.
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I'm nihilistic, antagonistic, violent, horrible - but not obliterated, yet. I just refuse to be beaten down. I think it's stubborness that keeps me going.
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I hope the story of 2011 is that America gets its mojo back. You've got to remember that America has the best universities; it's got some of the best businesses. It's got an unbelievable work ethic, rule of law. The story of 2011 will be America blossoming again.
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The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power.
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It doesn't happen very often that you get to work with some really good friends of yours and there's a common language between everyone, you don't have to explain what you're doing, you can just run with it. It makes it just so much easier and more relaxed.
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I want to act because I don't know how to do anything else.
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I don't believe in pressure. The pressure is not being prepared for what you want to do.
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Most of Broadway is based on a movie or a book. You don't see many original musicals.
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Good government is that which delivers the citizen from being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently-one that relieves him sufficiently from the barbaric business of guarding them to enable him to engage in gentler, more dignified, and more agreeable undertakings.
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It didn’t matter that he’d never see her again because she was safe, and she didn’t have to live this kind of life. Her life would be good. She was safe.
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Memory is fallible... not because of storage limitations so much as retrieval limitations.
