Daniel Levitin Quotes
Every status update you read on Facebook, every tweet or text message you get from a friend, is competing for resources in your brain with important things like whether to put your savings in stocks or bonds, where you left your passport, or how best to reconcile with a close friend you just had an argument with.Daniel Levitin
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
Barbara Bush -
I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
Rabih Alameddine -
Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
Naval Ravikant -
I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
Harmony Korine -
I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.
Vince Lombardi -
I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.
Zoe Kazan
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When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
Kate Micucci -
The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.
Carl Clinton Van Doren -
I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
Kate Walsh -
The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.
Uzo Aduba -
I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I'll watch myself back on 'Xtra Factor' and want to do it again because of a few hiccups.
Olly Murs -
If you don't feel good in it, don't wear it. Because it'll never look good. Any hesitation in the fitting room and just walk away.
L'Wren Scott
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I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how to do that without the people that are producing or creating or writing that which they want me to chew up.
Omari Hardwick -
Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
Walter Kirn -
I don't know how I got involved in 'Celebrity Wife Swap.' It came from my agent Hugh. He got the opportunity for me.
Gary Busey -
Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender.
Jackson Katz -
I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.
Natasha Tsakos -
I still love things that you don't even need to pay for. Going to the beach and being around five of your friends and having a good time means so much more than going out and spending hundreds of dollars.
Maria Sharapova
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Maybe because I didn't have a huge film career right off the bat, I've been able to create something different, which is so important to me. That's myself, my idea of who I am.
Kim Raver -
Tally-When you looked around at everyone else how come you didn’t notice they were brain damaged? Az - We didn’t have much to compare our fellow citizens with. Only a few colleagues who seemed different from most people, more engaged, but that was hardly a surprise. History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep. Before the operation there were wars and mass hatred and clear cutting. Whatever these lesions make us, it isn’t a far cry from how humanity was in the rusty era. These days we’re just a bit easier to manage.
Scott Westerfeld -
My favorite teammate of all time was Dan Reeves. Dan and I roomed together for four years. Dan's probably one of my best friends. I can understand him. He's from Americus, Ga., got that old, slow, southern drawl stuff. Dan's a great guy. Great competitor. He probably taught me more about football than any of the coaches did. He was still a student of the game. When you go from college to the pros, college football, yeah, you've got a playbook, but it ain't that big. Well when you get in the pros, you've got a playbook that's pretty thick. I was lost, really. But he showed me what to study and how to study.
Walt Garrison -
I'm convinced my mother only had sex eight times.
Linda Fiorentino -
Every status update you read on Facebook, every tweet or text message you get from a friend, is competing for resources in your brain with important things like whether to put your savings in stocks or bonds, where you left your passport, or how best to reconcile with a close friend you just had an argument with.
Daniel Levitin