Daniel Levitin Quotes
The coming together of rhythm and melody bridges our cerebellum and our cerebral cortex.
Quotes to Explore
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.
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We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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I couldn't speak any English when I first left Russia, and Intimissimi taught me everything. The team was like a family to me - they showed me how to model and how to stay in shape. They really believed in me.
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When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
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Lipgloss is my calling!
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I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
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I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.
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It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.
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Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.
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When I grew up, I never – I wasn't allowed to go out. I missed my prom because I went to an AAU tournament and all that stuff. For me, it was basketball, basketball, basketball.
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I had so many faux-parents.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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There's very few dork movies made by dorks.
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Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves - such is the stuff of short-selling.
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The sleeplessness is proven; it eradicates your memory.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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You're blessed if you have the strength to work.
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I'm sorry to say, but 85% of so-called 'green' firms make some of the ugliest buildings that were ever made. So for God's sake, I don't want to be categorized with them.
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Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.
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I myself was completely torn by the decision to start Teach For America. There was a voice in my head telling me not to do it - to take a more normal path. I did have one thing going for me, which was that I had been rejected from all the other jobs I'd applied to.
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The coming together of rhythm and melody bridges our cerebellum and our cerebral cortex.
