Daniel Levitin Quotes
The spiritual and emotional aspects of art are perhaps their most important qualities.
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IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
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My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn't really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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I am filled with uncertainty and fear when thinking about how my two daughters will grow into this world as Hoosiers, as Americans, as women and free thinkers.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.
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I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.
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We go after legacies because we just know that, sooner or later, people will understand what we bring to this culture and bring to the game.
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I think Barack Obama was born into a home not just to a white woman and white grandparents, but a white woman and white grandparents who shockingly told him it was okay that he was black and that he should not be ashamed of it and that he should, in fact, be proud of it.
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I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.
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I don't have any ill will or ill thought towards anybody.
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If longevity is the best index to measure a company, a basic requirement is the ability of the corporation to generate new and new leaders.
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My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.
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When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don't take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn't know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don't talk about baseball at home.
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There is a great book out called 'Everything I Needed to Learn I Learned in Kindergarten,' and I believe that everything I ever needed to learn on guitar was in my first two years of hungry learning: Scotty Moore, Hank Marvin, Chet Atkins, Lenny Breau, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley.
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Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
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I never felt any different from anyone else though.
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She didn't say a work, and I gave up trying, because you couldn't hear either one of us over the shattering noise of hearts breaking and the looming shadow of the last word, the one we refused to say.
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People don't know this, but early in your career, you don't just glide on to The Tonight Show.
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The spiritual and emotional aspects of art are perhaps their most important qualities.
