Daniel Levitin Quotes
The argument is that there may be a cluster of genes that influences both outgoingness and musicality. If this were true, we would expect to find that deviations in one ability co-occur with deviations in the other, as we do in WS and ASD.
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What I hope to do in the States is to break up this stereotyping of Muslims and Arabs. I mean, we are basically the only sub-culture that is not represented in Hollywood. And it's funny because everybody is talking about the Muslim world and the Arab world, and we are not represented.
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My fear with Trump was always that he didn't have great solutions.
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.
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Politicians in Washington and Madison aren't hearing, aren't listening to their constituents and prioritizing getting people back to work and growing our economy.
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To create a work of art is to create the world.
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The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.
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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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If there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.
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The argument is that there may be a cluster of genes that influences both outgoingness and musicality. If this were true, we would expect to find that deviations in one ability co-occur with deviations in the other, as we do in WS and ASD.
