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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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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I have an interest in languages and make an effort to learn.
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There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.
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I am quite a dreamer, and usually when someone tells a story, I tend to get distracted easily.
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During my freshman year at Cornell, I joined my dorm's intramural football team. At the first practice, upper classmen pointed out I was tall, so I should try playing QB. Well half an hour later, it was abundantly clear that I should not be the QB.
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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.
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I think humor is used a lot of the time to keep people from getting too close. Humor side-steps and shifts the meaning.
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I once got sacked for laughing ... mind you, I was driving a hearse at the 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.
