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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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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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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When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package.
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There is something transformative if you're a black person cheering in a theater and turn to see a white person cheering for the same thing you are.
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I want to safeguard the value of lunch. For me, it is sacred. My family and I always have lunch and dinner together. And we always sit down. Food does not taste the same if you are standing up!
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There's no one else I would rather have as my manager than my mom because I know that she has our best interests at heart. Sometimes, it's hard to separate manager mode from mom mode. I think as our manager, my mom will get more emotional about situations than she would if she was just our manager.
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Christian minds have been conformed to the modern spirit: the spirit, that is, that spawns great thoughts of man and leaves room for only small thoughts of God.
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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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The coming together of rhythm and melody bridges our cerebellum and our cerebral cortex.
