Daniel Levitin Quotes
Evolution doesn't just look for things that are fun; if it did, we'd know how to fly.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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I love to push myself.
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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I'm from there. You know, when you grow up with these people and see them every day and then you look at the numbers it was easy; it was a no-brainer. And when Sony took a look, it was a no-brainer to them, too.
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I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have.
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If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live - then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.
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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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I've always had an addictive nature.
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I want a director who can let me feel that he's listening and watching and that he's got me covered. That security is really important for me because sometimes you go into a vulnerable space, and you want to be able to look to somebody because you get insecure: 'Did I do that right?'
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I'm one of those people that thinks things happen for a reason, and you just have to look for the reason.
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You see I have to be in the clinic every Thursday and it's in Phoenix so I have to fly down or drive down. It has to be every Thursday for this damn stuff they're giving me.
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Is it demonstratable? Does it have that wow factor? Is it easy to use? Is it priced right?
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With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grandmother Mary Leakey pioneered the research in East Africa with my grandfather Louis. Many more spectacular fossil finds have since been made, both in Africa and elsewhere, by many researchers driven to understand our past.
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Evolution doesn't just look for things that are fun; if it did, we'd know how to fly.
