Daniel Levitin Quotes
In a country that was still racially segregated and prejudiced, music was among the first domains in which African-Americans thrived alongside whites.
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.
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I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
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Stuxnet, a computer worm reportedly developed by the United States and Israel that destroyed Iranian nuclear centrifuges in attacks in 2009 and 2010, is often cited as the most dramatic use of a cyber weapon.
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I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.
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As a boy, I had an uncle, T. G. Bond, who lived near Moreton Hampstead and who was passionately devoted to Dartmoor. He inspired me with the same love.
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Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
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The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience.
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That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other.
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It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.
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After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.
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You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.
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We think touch is short-term. The mouse and keyboard were stable for 25 years, but I think touch will be stable for 10 years. Post-touch will be stable for a really long time, longer than 25 years.
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There's no denying it: I was a crappy baby who failed his way into this world, and I've been making the best of it ever since.
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The fact of the matter is the Arab elites are more inclined to accommodate our wishes because of certain overlapping interests that are often financial. That is not the case with the Arab masses.
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My mum is a bit unconventional; she's outdoorsy and has more of an emotional intelligence, whereas my dad is pragmatic; he's a businessman.
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I never go perform somewhere alone. I've done that since day one. I've always taken other comics with me.
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Strictly speaking, relativism does not permit social progress, because the new culture is by definition no better than the one it replaced.
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Being authentic can be a good thing in that often people who are fixated on that are also fixated on having very high standards, so they may maintain something they think has tremendous value. On the other hand, most of the kinds of music that I've been excited about are hybrid in their origins.
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Sometimes when you meet a musician you are a fan of, and he or she isn't the friendliest person, you walk away from the experience wondering if you will ever be able to listen to their music again.
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In a country that was still racially segregated and prejudiced, music was among the first domains in which African-Americans thrived alongside whites.
