Daniel Tammet Quotes
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I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.
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I'll sleep when I'm dead.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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The brain abhors discrepancies.
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America.
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I think I've got some more big plays left in me.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I think I know I've been working very hard for the family business, sometimes those days are long days and I think if I know I'm working hard and pulling my weight, both working and playing hard at the same time, I think everyone who I work with can see I am there pulling my weight.
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My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
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If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
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I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.
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... Property can exit only under the guardianship of the State.
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
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I did learn a great deal about my husband but I also learned something about myself: I made a wise choice. I think he's a good man.
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Pop is in a shocking state at the moment.
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I would play with numbers in a way that other kids would play with their friends.
