Daniel Levitin Quotes
Both poetry and lyrics and all visual arts draw their power from their ability to express abstractions of reality. ...that is a feature of the musical brain.Daniel Levitin
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
Laura Dern -
I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
Ferdinand Marcos -
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicolson -
That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
Ottmar Hitzfeld -
To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
Ian MacKaye -
At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
F. L. Lucas
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The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.
Wayne Gretzky -
My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
Tao Lin -
Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
Ted Deutch -
I think that Amanda Nunes and Julianna Pena and Valentina Shevchenko... they've showed how much this level has gone up in female fighting in a very short period of time.
Daniel Cormier -
Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
Mae West -
It's always a wake-up call to get beaten.
Usain Bolt
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Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
T. S. Eliot -
I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.
Adam Giles -
Dan Henderson, even when you're close and he hits you from very, very close, you can feel how heavy his hands are. His hands are pretty powerful.
Daniel Cormier -
I'm very proud of 'Valhalla Rising.'
Mads Mikkelsen -
There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.
D. L. Hughley -
The best thing about baseball is there's no homework.
Dan Quisenberry
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As far as the 2009 elections go, there has been a serious crackdown on human rights in Iran, a clampdown on the media and the wrongful imprisonment of journalists. So it seems what's happening is the government is going after people who have a voice, people who change society or public opinion.
Nazanin Boniadi -
When we do something we have never done, we are already on the road to healing. We must break the routines.
Alejandro Jodorowsky -
I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.
Felicity Jones -
Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.
Yehuda Berg -
I actually wanted to be an astronaut, but I don't have a mathematical brain.
Eva Amurri -
Both poetry and lyrics and all visual arts draw their power from their ability to express abstractions of reality. ...that is a feature of the musical brain.
Daniel Levitin