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.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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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.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.
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The most violent and troubling stories become part of our national consciousness about foster care.
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I just hate losing and that gives you an extra determination to work harder.
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I'm not that beautiful, and I don't want to be a pop star.
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The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can't believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.
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Fondness for stories is just one of many artifacts, side effects of the way our brains work.
