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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Success can breed all kinds of other behavior and cause companies to behave a certain way that isn't necessarily the ingredients for achieving more success. For instance, with success comes arrogance, and that's typically the death of success.
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God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair.
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Once upon a time, gatekeepers were newspaper publishers and magazine editors and people who ran radio stations and news networks. And they decided what went above the fold and what went on page A10.
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People think that everyone wears black in France; in fact they all wear grey.
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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.
