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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I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.
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I was at a book convention, in a cab. On one side of me was Arthur Schlesinger; on the other side was William Manchester - real heavyweights. All they were doing was asking me about Charles Manson. The only thing that enables me not to be bored is the people talking about it - they're so interested.
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I'm tired of high policy talks. I want to focus on nuts and bolts.
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If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must hold to the difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust and find most faithful.
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I particularly like to travel for work because you see a completely different side of the country you're visiting.
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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.
