Daniel Levitin Quotes

If we are to appropriate money for roads, we need statistics on how bad our roads really are and, moreover, where more roads will be beneficial - it would be irresponsible to just build them where our gut tells us to.

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• I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.

  

  Larisa Oleynik
  • Life
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• In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• Happiness is precious, and so I prefer to keep mine private. In a world where everyone shares everything, I can think of a lot of happy moments, but they're mine.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • World
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• All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.

  

  Sallust
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• I'm one of those idiots; when I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till make-up comes off.

  

  Damian Lewis
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• I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.

  

  Captain Beefheart
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• I like things simple.

  

  Valentino Garavani
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• 'Mean' is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a short story I started years ago sort of demanded to be turned into a novel.

  

  Ramez Naam
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• I went to Mission Bay High School. Me and my brother, we both went there.

  

  Vic Fuentes
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• I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'

  

  Octavia Spencer
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• I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.

  

  Jackson Browne
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• Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • World
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• My first celebrity crush... I had a huge crush on 'Cheetara' from 'ThunderCats.'

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
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• I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Change
  • Accept
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• When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
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• I go on stage with what God gave me - and that's a natural high. I don't need nothing to perk me up. The audience picks me up enough. That's the total God's truth.

  

  Barbara Lynn
  • Up
  • God
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• Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.

  

  Gavin Newsom
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• I definitely want to start a family, but that will happen when it's supposed to.

  

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• You have to live in reality: not in what might happen but what is happening.

  

  Jimmy John Liautaud
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• Take your love and your pleasure as you find it. Do not worry so much of the future that you let today pass you by. you are happy. need you know more than that?

  

  R. A. Salvatore
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• Today, not to take away from any of the present artists, but music has gotten a little shallow, in my opinion. Everybody's talking about the same thing: sex, money, clothes, cheating... I want to open up not necessarily better conversations, but, in my opinion, more important ones, and touch on things that are actually going on.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Up
  • Music
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• If I had walked into a dry cleaning store, and I had looked over, and the register drawer was open with money inside, I wouldn't have taken it.

  

  Frank Abagnale
  • Money
  • Taken
  • Cleaning

• If we are to appropriate money for roads, we need statistics on how bad our roads really are and, moreover, where more roads will be beneficial - it would be irresponsible to just build them where our gut tells us to.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Money
  • Bad