Daniel Levitin Quotes
If everything in the environment is utterly predictable, you become bored. If it's utterly unpredictable, you become frustrated.
Quotes to Explore
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Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
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Indonesia is hardly immune to catastrophic breakdowns, as the anti-Communist pogrom showed. But, like India, it has been relatively fortunate in evolving a mode of politics that can include many discontinuities - of class, region, ethnicity, and religion.
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I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.
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Equality in education is my number one battle.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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To tell you the truth, I don't really follow what men wear. Men's fashion is much simpler than women's. It doesn't change as much.
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You parents of the wilful and the wayward! Don't give them up. Don't cast them off. They are not utterly lost. The Shepherd will find his sheep. They were His before they were yours - long before He entrusted them to your care; and you cannot begin to love them as He loves them.
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I'm very grateful to God for what he gives me. Victories, remarkable victories, but you have to go through the defeats. That is why I praise God for everything.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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Love is a credulous thing.
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Success begins at that magical moment when you declare to yourself, your friends, and the universe that you believe you can do something different.
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If my drug Ragaglitazar had been successful, we would have been getting royalties of thousands of crore rupees every year.
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I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
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If acting doesn't work out, I'm probably going to be a professional chef.
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Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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Don't order one for the road, because the road is already laid out.
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I did not become great by association of The Beatles! Beatles make Maharishi great? Pah! It is a waste of thought.
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I need a stylist to help me pull together a wardrobe. I just don't have a lot of time to go shopping. So I have a stylist that knows what I want to wear, what cut of clothing I like, someone that really thinks and understands what my style and how I want to feel in the clothes.
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I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening.
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The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much a part of Australia's art, writing, music and culture, both indigenous and non indigenous.
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The challenges military families face from frequent relocations and deployments are themselves patches of service, and that's why supporting our military families is one of my top priorities in Congress.
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So more than 8 million people lost their jobs. It's going to take a significant push on our part and time before that comes down. I don't anticipate it coming down rapidly.
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There are so many things that can go wrong while performing. I've had violin strings break; I've had pants that were slowly falling down, and I'd have to pull them up in between every song; my hairpiece was falling out, so a big chunk of hair was just flapping around as I danced, and I've completely fallen on my butt.
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If everything in the environment is utterly predictable, you become bored. If it's utterly unpredictable, you become frustrated.
