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.
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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.
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I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.
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I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience.
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A man is as alive as he can communicate.
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As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!
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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!
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I never expected to be approached for an ad campaign.
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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.
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I want to shine a spotlight on showing how dangerous Trump and his Twitter button can be.
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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.
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Irony is the hygiene of the mind.
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It's fun to see someone grow as a writer, moving from their first workshopped poems to publishing their earliest poems to having a book accepted for publication. It's great to see poets with persistence succeed.
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
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Windows are as essential to office prestige as Christmas is to retailing.
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We can say that speaking French 'runs in families,' but I don't know anyone who would claim that speaking French is genetic.
