Daniel Levitin Quotes
Collective music making... may have historically served to promote feelings of group togetherness and synchrony, and may have been an exercise for other social acts...
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What was once underground is now coming to the surface.
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen.
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Unworthiness is the inmost frightening thought that you do not belong, no matter how much you want to belong, that you are an outsider and will always be an outsider. It is the idea that you are flawed and cannot be fixed. It is wanting to be loved and feeling unlovable, or wanting to love and feeling that you are not capable of loving.
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I enjoy Saturday night racing.
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My fear with Trump was always that he didn't have great solutions.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.
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I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.
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When I was young, 'Scarface' was my favorite film. Al Pacino is my hero. I want to work with him.
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Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.
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For me, I've always wanted to be a nun. I mean, I think about what it's like to be a nun. And I've always been fascinated with nuns, and I have a nun collection, I've been collecting nuns for 20 years. And I have a song that I wrote, 'I Wanna Be a Nun,' when I was 25.
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I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.
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Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.
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I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.
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I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.
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I grew up in a school that had a big music program, and it was incredible. It's what I looked forward to during the day. I had chorus, strings, band.
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My YouTube videos have literally millions of views... Yet I'm still airbrushed out of the BBC Stalinist revision of history; the chart shows have been instructed not to play my music!
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I'm the guy coming from Juilliard.
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Probably the best part about being an actor is that you get to be a traveling wanderer.
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Freedom of expression must be considered sacred and thought can only be corrected by counter thought.
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Collective music making... may have historically served to promote feelings of group togetherness and synchrony, and may have been an exercise for other social acts...
