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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I never want any problems with anybody in this world.
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My children are my priority and always have been.
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Of course, in later years, I'd studied acting more than ever before - mostly with the late Stella Adler, who was marvelous! - but in my earlier years, I couldn't afford to do this.
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I was probably six years old when I first sang before an audience.
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When I got out of the army, I had the G.I. Bill. Since I had no high school education or anything like that, I came to NYU, and they took a chance on me and let me in.
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The goal of a life free of dysphoria is a snare and a delusion. A better goal is of good commerce with the world. Authentic happiness, astonishingly, can occur even in the presence of authentic sadness.
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The era of big government is over, but the era of big challenge is not. We need an era of big citizenship. There are many important people at this summit, but the most important title is 'citizen.' This is our republic. Let us keep it!
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I became a cognitive psychologist because I met a bunch of teachers I really liked.
