Daniel Levitin Quotes
Fondness for stories is just one of many artifacts, side effects of the way our brains work.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
Cameron Russell
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
Fabiola Gianotti
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
Carl Hagelin
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We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.
Octavia Spencer
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
Carlisle Floyd
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Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events.
Vincent Bugliosi
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
C. S. Forester
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There are young idealists all around the world falling in love with the Yankees now and realists who are gravitating to the Red Sox. I think the universe is on its head.
Samantha Power
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After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
Valentina Tereshkova
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
Wayne Rooney
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The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
Carl Jung
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
Landon Donovan
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You have to be talented. You have to work hard; you have to get the right pieces flowin' for you at the right time. And that's just what happened to me. I can't explain what happened.
Action Bronson
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Many schools desperately need caring professionals like guidance counselors and social workers to ensure students' emotional, social and educational needs are met. But proposals to arm teachers are irresponsible and dangerous. The role of educators is to teach and nurture our children, not to be armed guards.
Randi Weingarten
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I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.
Eavan Boland
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In the movies, they make you look good and tough, but in real life, it's completely the opposite. I do these ueber roles, I think, because in real life I'm quite shy and reserved. In real life, I'm a dork.
Sam Worthington
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
Patricia Highsmith
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Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.
Pamela Stephenson
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Bahrain is very dear to me.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
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Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count.
Kin Hubbard
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
Barbara Kruger
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Even with God’s help there is no substitute for the hard work.
Valentina
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Since winning the election, Donald Trump has jump-started voter suppression efforts at the federal and state levels.
Jason Kander
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Fondness for stories is just one of many artifacts, side effects of the way our brains work.
Daniel Levitin