Daniel Levitin Quotes
If you aren't taking regular breaks every couple of hours, your brain won't benefit from that extra cup of coffee.
Quotes to Explore
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If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.
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I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.
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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.
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It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.
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My parents are so cool, so chill, super hip. They know what's up.
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I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.
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I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
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Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
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I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city's worst university, Hangzhou Teachers University. I was studying to be a high school English teacher. In my university, I was elected student chairman and later became chairman of the city's Students Federation.
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I just want to be really clear about this: Anyone who has read Colin Powell's biography - there's an entire section where he talks about experiencing segregation. Colin Powell did not appear when he became head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. That's not how it happened.
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These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act scripting and where to put the reversal and all of that - and I think we can do more interesting narratives.
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I'm a believer in home-made recipes and concoctions, so I stick to natural or herbal products as much as I can. I also meditate regularly to de-stress.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.
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I wanted to create this dialogue between music and visual art and vice versa. No matter what part of the spectrum they fill, whether it's visual, music, or whatever, artists are interested in other art forms. Your brain is already kind of firing in that way.
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Inspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities. Each day becomes more meaningful, and your life is enhanced when your actions are guided by what inspires you.
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I had to spend a few years learning how to do movies. I wasn't really good at that. I was a theatre actor first and foremost. So I took my time learning that.
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Obama was quite serious when he said he was going to change the world. And now he has a national crisis, a personal mandate, a pliant Congress, a desperate public - and, at his disposal, the greatest pot of money in galactic history.
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When you grow up in one town and your life revolves around it, you are very aware of any darkness on the edge of town. That's because it's scary and it's inviting.
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If you aren't taking regular breaks every couple of hours, your brain won't benefit from that extra cup of coffee.
