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.

  

  Larry Elder
  • People
  • Home
  • American

• Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Family
  • Animal
  • Japanese

• 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.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Book
  • Name
  • Profound

• If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Heart
  • Mistake
  • Worry

• 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!

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Fun
  • Hope
  • Care

• 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.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Life
  • Age
  • Care

• My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Father
  • Political
  • Woman

• 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.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Mind
  • Bad
  • Reputation

• Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• 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.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Great
  • Men
  • May

• 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.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Today

• There's something healing about tears.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Tears
  • Something
  • Healing

• I grew up on the softball field. Every day I would take my glove and my bat with me.

  

  Yoenis Cespedes
  • Up
  • Me
  • Day

• I'm not super social, don't really go to parties, or basketball games, or football games very often, the big social occasions.

  

  Taylor Phinney
  • Football
  • Basketball
  • Very

• When we build an attractive home, we raze land on which animals have already built their homes. They have nowhere to go.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Home

• We are the hollow menWe are the stuffed menLeaning togetherHeadpiece filled with straw.

  

  T. S. Eliot

• There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as president. And we know the government can't solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Decision

• Can desire grow out of admiration, or are the two quite distinct species? What would it be like to lie side by side, naked, breast to breast, with a woman one principally admires?

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Desire

• Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men of spirit who might lead a revolution, by humbling the people, and making them incapable of decisive action.

  

  Aristotle
  • Fear
  • Tyrants
  • Preserve

• Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, the eighteenth-century letter writer and biographer wrote: “Civility costs nothing and buys everything.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Civility
  • Biographers
  • Buys

• Let there be an SU(5) Yang-Mills theory with all its gauge bosons, let the symmetry be broken down spontaneously, and let all but one of the remaining massless gauge bosons be sold into infrared slavery. That one last gauge boson is my favorite. Let him rush forth to illuminate all of my creations!

  

  Anthony Zee
  • Favorite
  • Creations
  • Boson

• It's always nice to do a family movie, because I do a lot of R-rated stuff.

  

  Craig Robinson
  • Family
  • Movie
  • Nice

• 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.

  

  Daniel Levitin