Daniel Levitin Quotes
Miller and his colleague Marty Haselton at UCLA have shown that creativity trumps wealth, at least in human females.
Quotes to Explore
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Everyone can do a character the way they want to do it, unless the director tells them not to, which isn't very common. I like to do my characters, if it's not specific in the script, as myself.
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My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'
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Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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I don't really go out at all.
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and untroubled pleasure lie in knowledge of God and love of God; they cannot exist without them.
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I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
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People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
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I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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In general, I think comedy is more difficult to write, to direct, and to act successfully.
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Downloading songs is not good.
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As a girl I wanted the Cyndi Lauper hairstyle, with the shaved side of the head, or the Sharon Stone perm from 'Total Recall.'
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At Yves Saint Laurent, I felt like the son-in-law - like I was part of the family, but not quite. When I was fired, I felt like the widow.
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The real enemy of happiness is the mind's fixations and delusions... If you have the right mind, you can overcome anything - you can be happy, no matter what.
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The sun sets in the west just about everyone knows that, but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange!
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While discussing the merits of djbdns over BIND (2004): Niek: 'Bind people don't ack djb points and vice versa.' Paul Vixie: i don't ack djb's existence, not merely his 'points.'
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And none of these people, not one of them, had loved any of the others well enough. Failures, he thought, we're all failures... He wanted his love to be the wine and bread, and the blood and flesh. He reached for her, a dangerous stranger in a city of dangerous strangers, but she turned away from him and walked unsteadily through the crowd. How many loveless people walk among the barely loved?
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Miller and his colleague Marty Haselton at UCLA have shown that creativity trumps wealth, at least in human females.
