Daniel Levitin Quotes
Across a range of inferences involving not just language but mathematics, logic problems, and spatial reasoning, sleep has been shown to enhance the formation and understanding of abstract relations, so much so that people often wake having solved a problem that was unsolvable the night before.
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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Being Bob Marley's son has done many things for me, in terms of having a career in music. I'm very proud of my music, and I'm very proud of where I'm from. People hear that I'm Bob Marley's son, and they turn on my music to listen just out of curiosity.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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'Press Your Luck' was probably the most exciting because of the unpredictability of the game and how I won on one of the three days on the very last spin against all odds. It was one of those great unpredictable game show moments.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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Our built-in human system for mimicry explains why we humans can transfer our good and bad moods to each other - if we aren't careful!
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
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I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.
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I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never shoot violence as if it's some kind of action video game.
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You'd be surprised how addicting high self-esteem is.
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I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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I am proud of my kids and happy to brag about their achievements. Their success has been an immense source of happiness for me.
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In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a film by that name in 1907, but, unlike his earlier adaptations of Verne, Melies' version bears no resemblance to the book.
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Women are half the population and they know how to take care of themselves, if they are only given access to health care.
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I think the knowledge of where you come from gives you more of an affinity for understanding different cultures and learning.
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The last thing that should happen is funding cut for education; it should be increased. We need to put more money towards education, and anything else is abusive.
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I remember when I first started having these interpretations of these images, these cliches of what movie stars are and this and that, and they're egomaniacal pricks and tyrants, but in general, for the most part, they're nice people to tell you the truth.
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Across a range of inferences involving not just language but mathematics, logic problems, and spatial reasoning, sleep has been shown to enhance the formation and understanding of abstract relations, so much so that people often wake having solved a problem that was unsolvable the night before.
