Daniel Levitin Quotes
The obvious rule of efficiency is you don't want to spend more time organizing than it's worth.
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I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
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Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.
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I actually like to sing on 'Rock Band.' I prefer to take the mic.
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'Shameless' was such a weird time in my life because I never really experienced any kind of role that put me that much in the spotlight before.
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Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different position today.
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The muses visit when I'm lonely.
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The only difference between a good writer who publishes a book and a good writer who doesn't is that the writer who publishes actually finished her book.
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I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.
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We try to guide with a light touch. Sometimes we can be helpful, and my goal with my team, both on the series side and on the film side, is that the collaboration should always be invited. In other words, we're not looking to impose our view on the filmmaker; we hire a storyteller because we love the story, and we love their ability to tell it.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.
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It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
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They were all interested in what I was going to do, because I'd never worked in televsion before.
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The good books stick around for a reason. There is a reason that we come back to them and they are so rewarding.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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A lot of people say writers start losing their powers after 60 or 65. But I look at the best-seller list and see a book by that 14-year-old gymnast, Dominique Moceanu, and I think, 'Now, what's she going to tell the world? And these 25-year-old rock stars, what are they going to tell the world?'
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Francois Hollande, the president of France, and Segolene Royal, a senior cabinet minister who once ran for that post herself, have an exceptionally complicated relationship. The two lived together for 25 years, raising four children over that time.
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From the time I was 18, I knew I wanted to be a comedian, but I was just scared to try it. And first I thought, 'Well, I should go to college and get a degree.' That didn't pan out.
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The minute you're working with the government, you're dealing with bureaucracy, you're dealing with time lags, you're dealing with rigidity, you're dealing with a slow pace.
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I had a high-flying career. Never wanted to get married. All I wanted to do was have some fun.
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The obvious rule of efficiency is you don't want to spend more time organizing than it's worth.
