Daniel Levitin Quotes
Contour refers to the pattern of musical pitch in a melody-the sequence of ups or downs that the melody takes-regardless of the size of the interval.
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Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
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Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.
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Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.
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If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
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You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!
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If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
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My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.
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Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis.
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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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In America, we may acknowledge Washington and Lincoln as great men, and probably Franklin and Jefferson and maybe Franklin Delano Roosevelt and possibly even several more, but we would probably disagree about precisely what it was that made them great, what it was that enabled them to give a lasting direction to the course of events.
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I still have a lot of my friends from high school. You just know who is there for you for real, and who is trying to get something out of you.
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So we've moved from an era when women's biology was women's destiny to today, which is an era in which men's biology is men's destiny.
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There's something healing about tears.
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When it starts to seem like you have popped into bed with a specific party, it makes it difficult for people to believe you are not doing someone else's bidding for them.
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I grew up on the softball field. Every day I would take my glove and my bat with me.
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I'm not super social, don't really go to parties, or basketball games, or football games very often, the big social occasions.
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When we build an attractive home, we raze land on which animals have already built their homes. They have nowhere to go.
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We are the hollow menWe are the stuffed menLeaning togetherHeadpiece filled with straw.
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Skateboarding was the only thing I was ever good at. Growing up, I was doing that from, like, dusk till dawn.
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Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using a kid's body as a mouthpiece.
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Go back to what's good, what's certain, what's always there. You woke up today. Just start walking.
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Contour refers to the pattern of musical pitch in a melody-the sequence of ups or downs that the melody takes-regardless of the size of the interval.
