Daniel Levitin Quotes
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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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Generally speaking, the Smritikars never care to explain the why and the how of their dogmas.
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There's no better feeling than just going in and just working with someone and what comes out is something that the world knows about.
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I find it easier to write in the winter in Melbourne. When the weather is good you want to go out for a walk, ride a bike, go to a cafe or something. When it's raining, when it's a miserable day, I just sit down at my desk and get some work done.
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Pell grants are the foundation of Federal student aid. As someone who attended college with the help of Pell grants and as chairman of the Pell Grant Caucus, I know how important they are for our Nation's low-income students.
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I agree completely that nothing is more important for transgender people than to have access to excellent health care in trans-affirmative environments, to have the legal and institutional freedom to pursue their own lives as they wish, and to have their freedom and desire affirmed by the rest of the world. This will happen only when transphobia is overcome at the level of individual attitudes and prejudices and in larger institutions of education, law, health care, and kinship.
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We compete, not so much against an opponent, but against ourselves. The real test is this: Did I make my best effort on every play?
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I became a cognitive psychologist because I met a bunch of teachers I really liked.
