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've always been that person: If it gets into my head, I've got to do it until I get it perfect - a perfectionist's attitude.
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'I Get Around' came on one day. I'd never heard the Beach Boys before. The sound was so fresh to me. That was the first time when I truly was gripped by the power of music. It opened my eyes to the heights that music can achieve.
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A very common thing these days is people show up and they ask us in the band to sign with a Sharpie right on their skin and they go get it tattooed the next day. Then they'll show up at another show and they'll have their tattoo.
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Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description.
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People find a sense of being, a sense of worth and substance being associated with land. Association with final roots gives us not only a history but proclaims us heirs to a future.
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Some people like very predictable melodies, and others prefer the less likely notes.
