Daniel Levitin Quotes
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I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.
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I truly believe that you have to bring more content to the table to survive in radio than saying, 'There was AC/DC, and here's Journey,' because computers can do that.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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I think the process is one of using the camera and sound in the way a detective uses a magnifying glass: to find the clues. They're discovery devices, not performance devices - you're watching things the way a cat does. You're not judging. You're there to witness something.
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'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.
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What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
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A man's kiss is his signature.
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When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.
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May it be long before the people of the United States shall cease to take a deep and pervading interest in the Fourth of July, as the birthday of our national life, or the event which then occurred shall be subordinated to any other of our national history.
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It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.
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To hinder, besides, the farmer from selling his goods at all times to the best market, is evidently to sacrifice the ordinary laws of justice to an idea of public utility, to a sort of reasons of state; an act of legislative authority which ought to be exercised only, which can be pardoned only in cases of the most urgent necessity.
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My main thing is music; it's what I do.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I'm easy. Put me in an interesting location with good people and I'm there.
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Some people like very predictable melodies, and others prefer the less likely notes.
