Daniel Levitin Quotes
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.
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The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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I've been doing lots of trapeze, and so much of it is holding your own weight.
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OK, I'm happy. I'm happy. All right? I'm happy.
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When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
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You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?
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Most single women have been in that situation where there is a silent guy in your group. You don't see him as boyfriend material. He's just there, but you know all the same people.
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There was a rule, back when I was an education lawyer in Alabama, about visiting public schools: always go on a rainy day so you can see how badly the roofs leak.
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The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their poisonous remarks.
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After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, briefly. I'd been a shipping clerk, I worked in a copy shop, I didn't think the acting was going to go on and on.
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I want to separate my professional life from my personal life. I want to live a normal life and be a normal mother.
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Abortion opponents know full well that the public would not abide putting women in prison en masse. Politically, it's more palatable to portray them as irrational, ignorant, and childlike, perhaps even temporarily insane.
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I feel I am a little unfit for the kind of music that is being made today. There is a big difference between what I sang earlier and what is being made now. I am not saying this music is bad, but there are too many beats.
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A philosopher is someone who says, 'We know it's possible in practice; we're trying to work out if it's possible in principle!'
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要使文艺很好地成为整个革命机器的一个组成部分，作为团结人民、教育人民、打击敌人、消灭敌人的有力的武器，帮助人民同心同德地和敌人作斗争。
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I was raised as an upper-class WASP in New England, and there was this old tradition there that everyone would simply be guided into the right way after Ivy League college and onward and upward. And it rejected me, I rejected it, and I ended up as a kind of refugee, really.
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I think that the hardest thing about working with young people in foster care who've been through this kind of neglect and abuse is really to convince them that they are worthy of being loved. And I think because often they don't feel worthy of it, that's why they push people away.
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I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.
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I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words.
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You're entitled your own opinions, but you're not entitled to your own facts.
