Daniel Tammet Quotes

I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.'

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• PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction.

  

  Hans Bender
  • Mind
  • Soul
  • Heaven

• There's nothing unnatural in creation.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Nothing
  • Creation
  • Unnatural

• I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.

  

  Babette March
  • Good
  • Thought
  • Just

• We need a wireless mobile device ecosystem that mirrors the PC/Internet ecosystem, one where the consumers' purchase of network capacity is separate from their purchase of the hardware and software they use on that network. It will take government action, or some disruptive technology or business innovation, to get us there.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Business
  • Action
  • Technology

• I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Love
  • Doing
  • Before

• I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Twitter

• One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Real
  • You
  • Jazz

• It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Men
  • May
  • True

• To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Business
  • Know
  • Succeed

• Every actor has their own process. For me, I really need to stay in the pocket. So, if I'm on set and I'm in character, I'm not thinking like a producer. If I'm on set and I'm not in character, wardrobe and make-up, and I'm just coming on set for the moments that I'm not shooting, then I'm able to be the producer.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Character

• Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.

  

  Barbara Smith
  • Important
  • Women
  • Experience

• I play as I feel.

  

  Oscar Peterson
  • Play
  • Feel
  • I Feel

• I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Different
  • Long
  • Think

• We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Black
  • Community
  • Drug

• Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • People
  • Trying
  • Stars

• The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Good
  • Emotional
  • Enough

• Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Long
  • Surprise

• I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • True
  • Being
  • Often

• Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed

  

  Paulo Freire
  • Violence
  • Destiny

• The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Music
  • Job
  • Attention

• We don't want it to be obscure music. We're not trying to be indie. We want to be popular.

  

  Kelela Mizanekristos
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Popular

• The important thing is to build up my cardiovascular system, so I have the stamina to do stunts. To me, stepping over the line, taking a chance and succeeding is the ultimate freedom, be it in rock and roll or when executing a really challenging routine.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • Up
  • Important
  • Freedom

• One of the difficulties for me is that I'm naturally very skinny, so the problem that I have is trying to keep weight on, put weight on. I have to eat six, seven times a day, and I have to have a lot of carbohydrates to try and fatten me up so I have something to turn into muscle.

  

  Charlie Cox
  • Up
  • Trying

• I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.'

  

  Daniel Tammet
  • Music