Daniel Tammet Quotes

I'm not sure I'm the only savant with high IQ or with an above average IQ. Again, it may just be that we don't know very many of the others.

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• I think that I could be an example to young people, and they know that dreams come true.

  

  Maluma
  • People
  • True
  • Think

• When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Young
  • Young People

• I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Play
  • Learn
  • Singer

• The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Politics
  • Safety
  • Aim

• It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • True
  • Best
  • Succeed

• Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Family
  • Culture
  • Movies

• Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Flying
  • Calm
  • Rattle

• I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Good
  • School
  • High

• I think what's important in a good manager and a good agent is that they know your vision and that they are passionate about you and believe in you. Because if they don't, then they're not going to work hard for you, and they're going to send you out on things that you don't want to do.

  

  Maiara Walsh
  • Good
  • Work
  • Believe

• Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Important
  • Real
  • Know

• When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Love
  • Process

• To dissociate politicians from capitalists is slightly disingenuous, to put it mildly. U.S. lawmakers are competitive and auction themselves to the highest bidder via the lobby system.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Politicians
  • Themselves

• My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Friends
  • Night
  • Light

• A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.

  

  Randa Haines
  • Car
  • Doctor
  • Mechanic

• I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • World
  • Mind
  • College

• Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • End
  • Aim
  • Noble

• I've probably said that in every feature I've been in. I've been repeatedly defined as the girlfriend or wife.

  

  Nancy Travis
  • Wife
  • Said
  • Girlfriend

• I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Really
  • Champ
  • Wallace

• I grew up in New York till I was 5, and I remember going to see 'Annie' and some musicals as a kid, and I remember my parents being somewhat okay with us watching 'Rocky Horror Picture Show,' which, it boggles my mind that they allowed me to watch it.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Remember

• Haiti is in desperate poverty.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Poverty
  • Desperate
  • Haiti

• Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is; the people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived, and on such occasions only does it seem to will what is bad.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• Mr. Bibbit, you might warn this Mr. Harding that I'm so crazy I admit to voting for Eisenhower. Bibbit! You tell Mr. McMurphy I'm so crazy I voted for Eisenhower twice!And you tell Mr. Harding right back - he puts both hands on the table and leans down, his voice getting low - that I'm so crazy I plan to vote for Eisenhower again this November.

  

  Ken Kesey
  • Crazy
  • November

• Your next SMS will probably be around longer, and remain more legible, than your tombstone. For, unlike your tombstone or even your mortal coil, your texts may be worth something.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • May
  • Tombstone

• I'm not sure I'm the only savant with high IQ or with an above average IQ. Again, it may just be that we don't know very many of the others.

  

  Daniel Tammet
  • May
  • High