Daniel Levitin Quotes
The left brain is responsible for making order out of chaos, for making sense of things in the world that don't always add up. To do this, it often makes up stories, fantastic confabulations in some cases, just to be able to explain what we're experiencing.
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Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.
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I feel like, sometimes, people, because of the amount of media, because of the amount of attention, people seem to think I have to do things. Like, I have to win right now! But I don't feel like that.
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Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
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I eat two breakfasts, two lunches, and two dinners throughout the day. It's always eating.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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The interesting thing about blockchain is that it has made it possible for humanity to reach a consensus about a piece of data without having any authority to dictate it.
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Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
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I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
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We need to do things better, but in a way that makes sense.
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There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great.
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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.
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It's superficial that people think I'm cool because I wear certain clothes and I have tattoos. The funniest part is, when they get to know me, they're always surprised by how nerdy I am.
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Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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I guess music is very global.
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My world was completely different to other boys my age. When I was six I was earning money, and by 10 I was paying more tax than the parents of other pupils. I feel a lot older than my years. Because I was working with adults, I had to mature a lot quicker.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
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My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests.
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Women's tennis is two sets of rubbish that lasts only half an hour.
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The left brain is responsible for making order out of chaos, for making sense of things in the world that don't always add up. To do this, it often makes up stories, fantastic confabulations in some cases, just to be able to explain what we're experiencing.
