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.Daniel Levitin
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
Vicente Fox -
A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Samuel Johnson -
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.
Landon Donovan -
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
Patrick Henry -
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.
Barton Gellman -
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.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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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.
Samantha Bee -
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.
Rachel Dratch -
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.
Earl Scruggs -
It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.
Barbara Olson -
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.
Vernon L. Smith -
You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
Kalpana Chawla
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There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.
Calvin Klein -
You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.
Patrick McGoohan -
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.
Gabe Newell -
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.
Zach Anner -
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.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
It is probably very necessary to present your ego at some point.
Eberhard Weber
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I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.
Obie Trice -
I can remember wondering as a child if I were a young Macaulay or Ruskin and secretly deciding that I was. My infant mind even was bitter with those who insisted on regarding me as a normal child and not as a prodigy.
Wilhelm Nero Pilate Barbellion -
Once people start introducing animal products into their diet, that's when the mischief starts.
T. Colin Campbell -
At its core, the United States is grateful, warm-hearted, full of unexpected twists and turns - not a cold and bullying prison - it's a place of infinite jest.
Ilan Stavans -
In a country that was still racially segregated and prejudiced, music was among the first domains in which African-Americans thrived alongside whites.
Daniel Levitin