Daniel Levitin Quotes
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.
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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'm a big handbag lover and will always have one with me.
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It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.
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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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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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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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While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
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Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.
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I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.
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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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Nobody wants a unitary voice of authority any more.
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I like my feet. I have a tattoo on my foot with my last name. They're dancer feet. They're pretty. My toes are proportioned nicely. And they're strong - I can pinch people with my toes.
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I was born to speak. I got in trouble as a kid for talking. I already knew it was a strength.
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