Daniel Levitin Quotes
Fondness for stories is just one of many artifacts, side effects of the way our brains work.Daniel Levitin
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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 -
The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
Fabiola Gianotti -
Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
Carl Hagelin -
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 -
Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
Carlisle Floyd -
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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After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
Valentina Tereshkova -
I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
Wayne Rooney -
The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
Carl Jung -
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 -
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 -
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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Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.
Pamela Stephenson -
I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
Jack White The White Stripes -
Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
Ad Reinhardt -
Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
Harold Coffin -
TV is starting to become such a collective experience again. People are watching it on their own time, rather than being on a schedule. Netflix offers the easy opportunity to watch as much as you can.
Landon Liboiron -
We go along, without a fixed itinerary, yet at the same time with an end (what end?) in mind, and with the aim of reaching the end. A search for the end, a dread of the end: the obverse and the reverse of the same act.
Octavio Paz
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For much of the final decade of the 20th century, one story regularly dominated the news across much of the developed world. It was the unravelling of the marriage between the heir to the British throne and his beautiful, charismatic princess, Diana.
Penny Junor -
You find your eyes are growing moist. All the fears never voiced say you have to make your final choice.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd -
The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.
Abhishek Bachchan -
Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
N. Murray Edwards -
I never felt like I had a mother.
Quincy Jones -
Fondness for stories is just one of many artifacts, side effects of the way our brains work.
Daniel Levitin