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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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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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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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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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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All my Dominican friends live in an area called Los Venaga. Their houses are shacks. They'd invite us over to dinner, and we'd sit in plastic chairs on the dirt inside a house.
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Kids should feel afraid of 'Doctor Who.' All the adults I've talked to remember fondly being afraid when they were kids. That's part of the reason they remember it and love it. And if you're afraid in a controlled way, you sort of appreciate fear in some respect.
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The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation.
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It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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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.
