Daniel Levitin Quotes

We can say that speaking French 'runs in families,' but I don't know anyone who would claim that speaking French is genetic.

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• Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

  

  Ovid
  • Return
  • Wave
  • Nor

• Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited human being. And there are people that he has hurt that people will never know about. And for some reason, at some point, he decided to turn that kind of negative attention toward me. And I refused to have it.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • People
  • Attention
  • Hurt

• I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Software

• I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • High
  • Always
  • Quirky

• My daughter's still so tiny at the moment; she's just a sweet little meaty thing. But of course, you always think about what you want for them, don't you, and like any parent I want my children to be happy more than anything.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Children
  • She
  • Happy

• You care enough, that you want your life to be fulfilled in a living way, not in a painting way, not in a writing way... you really do want it to be involving in living, corresponding with other living objects, moving, changing, that kind of thing.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Moving

• I think a great starting point for a debate and discussion over a national consumption tax is, let's start with the Fair Tax, legislation that has been written up and, I think, signed up on by 80 congressmen and women.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Up
  • Great
  • Women

• And in fact I don't believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land is a living, breathing thing and light changes its character every second of every day. That's why I love it so much.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Why

• My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Work
  • Inspiration
  • Musicians

• There are so many people who are arguing or fighting over issues which don't have much relevance. We must all realise it is not worth it. It's like being in the whirlpools which are always present behind a little rock near a river. We seem to be living in these little whirlpools and forget that there is a whole river. The picture is much bigger.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • People
  • Rock
  • Present

• I'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Experience
  • Human
  • Psychology

• A man is as alive as he can communicate.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Man
  • Alive
  • Communicate

• As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • People
  • You
  • Play

• It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good!

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Me

• I never expected to be approached for an ad campaign.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Never
  • Expected
  • Campaign

• I think I played in Lambeau maybe 14, 15 times. I've played there a lot of times. It's in the teens, double digit. I've had success on that field, won and lost.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Think
  • Success
  • Lost

• I want to shine a spotlight on showing how dangerous Trump and his Twitter button can be.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Want
  • Trump
  • Shine

• Everyone in business is tenacious and extremely aggressive. If you're not a 'now' person - do it right now - then you're not going to be successful. I like that kind of mentality.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Business
  • Kind
  • Successful

• Musicians are at the bottom of the creative pyramid and authors are at the top, and many people think it's unacceptable for someone to attempt to jump from the bottom to the top of the pyramid.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Musicians
  • Authors
  • Pyramid

• A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Religion
  • Nothing
  • Suffers

• The notion of being on a cop show was appealing, just because it's one of those tick boxes in a career.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Career
  • Boxes
  • Just Because

• India has been a cauldron of dreams, ideas and aspirations of the humankind and this is a distinctive character of India, and India in that sense represents the world in miniature. If a system can succeed in India, it will indicate the possibility of such success in the world as a whole.

  

  K. R. Narayanan
  • Dreams
  • Indian
  • Cauldron

• The Gutenberg galaxy was theoretically dissolved in 1905 with the discovery of curved space, but in practice it had been invaded by the telegraph two generations before that. (p. 286)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Space
  • Practice
  • Galaxy

• We can say that speaking French 'runs in families,' but I don't know anyone who would claim that speaking French is genetic.

  

  Daniel Levitin