Daniel Levitin Quotes

I reject the notion of a post-truth area. I don't believe there is such a thing, and we shouldn't accept that.

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• For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Work
  • Know
  • Deal

• As the law minister, I had ensured that the government's right to natural resources was protected. The result was evident. The honourable Supreme Court gave the landmark decision in RIL vs RNRL case that the government is the owner of all natural resources.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Law
  • Government
  • Decision

• I don't like controversy.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Like
  • Controversy

• I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Never
  • Younger
  • Anybody

• Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Responsibility

• Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Men
  • Never
  • Take

• Botox, trust me I've been tempted - but I resist! Think about what happens to your muscles - and your skin - if you're sick and don't move for a few days. It all atrophies! Plus, if you freeze a muscle in your face, other muscles have to compensate! And once you stop, what does that look like?

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Me
  • Stop
  • Trust

• My father also encouraged my love of nature. He urged me to become a Cub Scout, and later a Boy Scout, and I found I really liked being outdoors.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Nature
  • Father
  • Being

• It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • New
  • New York
  • Flying

• Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Sometimes
  • Will
  • Make

• I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Same

• I always say show me a storyteller who doesn't embellish, and I'll show you a bad one.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Bad
  • Storyteller
  • Embellish

• I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Book
  • Point
  • Where

• I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • Time
  • Women
  • Power

• Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Way
  • You
  • Wrong

• Because many of us have been in game shows for some time, there's always someone around who can share a story of Johnny O or Jay Stewart that I never heard.

  

  Randy West
  • Time
  • Game
  • Story

• I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • People
  • Learning
  • Tea

• You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • World
  • Music
  • Color

• It was so satisfying for me - a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter Susan Riskin. Imagine, a play about my mother directed by my daughter?!

  

  Fay Wray
  • Great
  • Done
  • Mother

• Adele was introduced to me by a guitarist named Mike Hartnett that plays for a band called Rehab. We was just riding around, and he was like, 'Man have you heard this soul singer Adele?' and I was like 'Nah!' and we just rode to the whole CD, and it got to 'Hometown Glory,' and I was like, 'Man I have to sample that!'

  

  Justin Scott
  • Soul
  • Band

• There is the story in every man's heart of human progress. I believe every one of us knows that his major job on Earth is to make some contributions, no matter how small, to this inexorable movement of human progress.

  

  King Vidor
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • Job

• I tend to relate more to people on television who are just themselves, for good or for bad, than I do to someone who I believe is putting on some sort of persona. The anchorman on 'The Simpsons' is a reasonable facsimile of some anchors who have that problem.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• The truth of the matter is this - I never look for films specifically, because ultimately if the fundamentals of the character and the script and the director aren't there, it makes it a moot point.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Character
  • Truth
  • Fundamentals

• I reject the notion of a post-truth area. I don't believe there is such a thing, and we shouldn't accept that.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Believe
  • Truth