Daniel Levitin Quotes
I became interested in structure when I was in graduate school. How is it that the brain perceives structure in a sometimes disorganized and chaotic world? How and why do we categorize things? Why can things be categorized in so many different ways, all of which can seem equally valid?
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Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.
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Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
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Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.
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We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
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Stardom happens - you can't plan it - it's destiny, and you shouldn't stand between you and your destiny. I'm letting my destiny play its part, and I go by my gut feeling. If I like my role, I say yes; if I don't, I just refuse, as simple as that.
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Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.
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I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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I consider Apple to be very closed. Let's say you have a book business, and you are charging 5 to 7 percent gross margins; you can't exist in an Apple world because they want 30 percent, and they don't care that you only have 7 percent to play with.
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I'm skilled in the Twitter and Instagram sense of the social media verse.
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I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.
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Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
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Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
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What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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I moved straight from kindergarten ,at age 4, to graduate school to my position at Lake Forest ,at age 26. No break. No bumming around Europe. No peace corps. No corporate cubicle job. No stint as a Starbucks barrista.
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The reason it takes us from November the second to December the sixth to certify is because we have a very tedious, very comprehensive process where we audit by precinct, across the state, every vote that was cast to make sure that every vote that was legally cast is counted.
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Nothing lasts forever in my profession.
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All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.
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The Bible clearly says that when we have a problem with our brother, we are to go to them and try to resolve the situation.
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I became interested in structure when I was in graduate school. How is it that the brain perceives structure in a sometimes disorganized and chaotic world? How and why do we categorize things? Why can things be categorized in so many different ways, all of which can seem equally valid?
