Daniel Levitin Quotes
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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.
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I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
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Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
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In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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I'd go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like that for a few years, getting jobs in bits and pieces.
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The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.
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It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.
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There's some people who do things so bad it tears the fabric of the world, and then there's some people so sweet and good that they can feel it when the world gets torn. They see things, they know things, only they're so good and pure that they don't understand what it is that they're seeing.
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But those states that are not going to comply by Jan. 1 have been in touch with the Department of Justice. The agency has taken the practical position it is going to work with us, and we are making good-faith efforts to comply by the next federal election. I know of no state that is going to be sued for noncompliance.
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We're facing a good team, a smart team, ... Right now, they're on top of their game and we're not.
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She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more.
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With a record of 75 fights and 6 losses, some of the losses were very questionable including Brian Nielsen when we fought in Denmark. I knew I won but they didn't give me that fight.
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An organized mind leads effortlessly to good decision-making.
