Daniel Levitin Quotes
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
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In this business, it's important to constantly do things that you don't know how to do. I love touring and making records, but I've learned how to do that, so sometimes you just have to dive in and try it.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.
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However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize the many challenges ahead and reaffirm our commitment to making Brown v. Board a reality.
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I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
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It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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And now comes Pete Martell in Twin Peaks and he's just a nice guy.
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When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.
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I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'
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From the alienated starting point of our pseudo-sanity, everything is equivocal. Our sanity is not "true" sanity. Their madness is not "true" madness. The madness of our patients is an artifact of the destruction wreaked on them by us, and by them on themselves.
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My place of refuge is definitely watching movies and playing video games. I know that's kind of hard to fathom.
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I just really love being in my pajamas.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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