Daniel Levitin Quotes
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My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?
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If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court judge if he were forced to follow the true poetic formula, doing the job for love, being forced into pubs for relief.
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Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart - when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won't work out. It's ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I might actually lose everything.
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All I can do is put out the good stuff, and people will make the decision on whether they like it. My fans are very intelligent people. They're not stupid. They know what's good.
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We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
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I have no desire to enter politics. Because I am not suited for that.
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I love New York.
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I only judge people in one way. I like them or I don't. But I don't have preconceived ideas.
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I cry at anything remotely touching - smile at me warmly and I'm off... television also does it, everything from 'X-Factor' to cereal commercials. I cry when I am tired. I also cry when I laugh.
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The kind of money that show business will pay you, unless you need to have shoes made of diamonds, you can actually put it in the bank and sort of be okay.
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My celebrity has held steady since the day I began acting. I don't view it as celebrity. I'm just a worker.
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The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
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In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
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My children are my priority and always have been.
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I've said numerous times that I play to have a stage that people will listen to, and I pray to God that I do right by my influence.
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The dissonance that I felt daily flew in the face of what Silicon Valley says about itself: that it is a meritocracy, that it values intelligence and creativity, that everyone has a fair shot if they just work hard enough. This was true only if you were technical, and even that may not always be enough: in the age of the social network, who you know and who your friends were was becoming increasingly important.
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For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown.
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During my time as CIA Director and Secretary of Defense, Hillary was a strong supporter of our efforts to protect our homeland, decimate al-Qaeda, and bring Osama bin Laden to justice.
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Certainly there's a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there.
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Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity.
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I became a cognitive psychologist because I met a bunch of teachers I really liked.
