Daniel Levitin Quotes
When you're at work, be fully at work. And let your leisure time be what it's meant to be - restorative and fun.
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I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night.
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Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.
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I exercise every morning. I do light weights - 5lb and 10lb arm exercises - and then lie and lift my arms and legs. It's all about keeping core strength. I do a lot of stretching too.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
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Every day is like Halloween or Christmas eve for me. I go to bed, and I'm so excited to get back to work. I'm very lucky that I have a career like that 'cause not many people do.
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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Economize in other things if you must, wear threadbare clothes if necessary, but never cheat your body or brain by the quality and quantity of your food. Poor, cheap food which produces low vitality and inferior brain force is the worst kind of economy.
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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
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You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
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It's always an honour doing anything for your country.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
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Some of the senior people, the very senior astronauts, shook my hand and said, 'K.C., you did a great job. Don't let anyone tell you different.'
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What is sought can never produce the seeking.
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A good film demands its own score, and if you are a musician, your conscience will never allow you to do something mediocre for a good film.
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Let's take up the most important issues first. Let's take up the reauthorizations first; let's take up the appropriations bill first, not wait until four days beforehand - no one has mentioned anything, and, all of a sudden, somebody looks at their watch and says, 'Hey, in four days, the government is going to run out of money.'
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I have an interest in languages and make an effort to learn.
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Steve Jobs once asked me for some advice about retail, but I said, 'I am not sure at all we are in the same business.'
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I always wanted to be in charge of my own career. I like having my own imprint.
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Always work hard, be honest, and be proud of who you are.
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I typically take life one day at a time.
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When you're at work, be fully at work. And let your leisure time be what it's meant to be - restorative and fun.
