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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I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.
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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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So much of the bitterness that the term 'McCarthyism' evokes refers to the probe begun in New Jersey in the summer of 1953 - both in the laboratories of Fort Monmouth and in the surrounding communities of Red Bank and Belmar, where some of the best scientists and engineers in America worked.
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Great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.
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I like entertaining people. I want to make big entertainment.
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I knew I had a gift. I wanted the world to hear my music, and I wanted it to be my career, but I didn't know how to go about it.
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We all know the dangers of sequels. Lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place too often, and I think you've got to move beyond it, go the extra mile and have the courage not to just repeat the first one.
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You're entitled your own opinions, but you're not entitled to your own facts.
