Daniel Levitin Quotes
Consonant intervals and dissonant intervals are processed via separate mechanisms in the auditory cortex.
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What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.
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I want a place where I can have horses.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV.
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I sleep better on the road than I do at home. I'm used to sleeping in a million different hotels. I'm not home very often, so when I get home, I have things I want to do.
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I'm a fixer, unfortunately. I'm like, 'Oh, I can fix you.' But it's not just guys I'm dating anymore. It's this entire legion of young girls who tell me they need me to maintain any sort of sanity or peace.
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I went to Moses Malone's golf tournament in Houston, and I've been hooked ever since.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.
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God's been very good to me. I'm truly blessed.
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Blinking is some way of tabulating - a kind of carriage return, click, or save to disk - that helps the process of 'Okay, now change the subject.' Every time you move your eyes, there's an interruption in the visual field - you go momentarily blind when your eyeballs are moving.
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You're going to change as you grow older, and that messes up a lot of relationships.
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I have talked to people across the country struggling in the face of an altered climate. New Jersey homeowners are trying to rebuild after Superstorm Sandy. Miami government officials are trying to plan for rising seas and flooded streets. California farmers are trying to make it through the state's worst drought on record.
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When we started, we thought about the scale of the Internet - if everyone was using the service at the same time, what would that look like?
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We've seen the power of the PC, and we've seen that it's unstoppable.
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It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.
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We have to be serious and consistent if we believe the European Union makes sense. I believe it makes sense.
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I was in the Commons recently and saw a young lady wearing a nice pair of shoes. I said I liked them and she said my shoes were the reason she became involved in politics.
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When people silo themselves by belief, only affiliating with like-minded media organizations and people, we lose the opportunity for genuine conversation, much less persuasion.
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Friends and family were convinced I was functioning just fine because I was efficient, productive and successful - who wouldn't be working twenty hour days? I had everybody fooled with my illness.
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In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
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The method of producing comics in Japan is very hectic, but it's also rewarding because it's possible to do both the story and art all by yourself.
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Consonant intervals and dissonant intervals are processed via separate mechanisms in the auditory cortex.
