Daniel Levitin Quotes
I don't think I'm always right, but I would like to empower people to come to sound conclusions using a systematic way of looking at things.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
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Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.
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I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me.
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I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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It's not that I don't want a fast car. I like the speed. I'm just not the type of person who finds a sports car a sexy car.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
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Parents, teachers, and other school staff need the tools to help these young people early in their lives. And the earlier, the better. It is proven that early action prevents problems later in life.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
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The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.
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Until you've had depression I don't think you're qualified to talk about it.
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We want to allow Costa Ricans to make a qualitative leap in our development and go to an economy based on innovation and developing a broadband infrastructure in order to overcome the barrier of 15 per cent penetration.
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An only child, I always wanted a large hug-house.
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Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.
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I don't think I'm always right, but I would like to empower people to come to sound conclusions using a systematic way of looking at things.
