David Eagleman Quotes
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Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.
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I would never let somebody say that they're me. That would be the ultimate betrayal of what I stand for.
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When I grew up, my role model was my grandma because she's just the best.
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I was born in Argentina where polo is popular, and my father always loved horses, so he encouraged me to play. He's the main reason I started to play polo and get involved with the sport.
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Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name - why didn't he do this sooner? Why didn't he see it coming? It's the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee.
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Our mission was to make sure that the bad guys, basically, did not get nuclear weapons.
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I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks; I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.
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I never liked you, and I always will.
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The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.
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I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea in my life.
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I looked at but was not allowed to touch Ai Weiwei's 'Sunflower Seeds' at the Tate. The film of making them was really moving.
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For a number of years in England nobody had any idea what I looked like.
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A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
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When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.
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The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
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I strongly support SNAP and will continue to urge my colleagues in Congress to provide adequate funding to this important program.
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I am very grateful for the opportunities I've had and feel I have a duty to repay my good fortune through philanthropic endeavors that expand the reach of human possibility and compassion.
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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.
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When I came to the last line of 'Car Crash While Hitchhiking,' I read it as a pitiless statement of indifference: a refusal to warn the family of their impending collision, a refusal to help when miraculously spared, a refusal to act on the empathy hiding behind the story's language.
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A lot of people think being at the top means you have to be the best at a certain game. You don't. It's more about personality.
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People have been savaged by a predatory economic and political system, and some are turning to Trump. Unfortunately, Trump is just more of the same.
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I hope my passion for Rome's past has not impaired my judgement, for I do honestly believe that no country has ever been greater or purer than ours or richer in good citizens and noble deeds...
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There are always wonderful mysteries to confront.
