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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Here's what's nice about life: Sometimes you have ideas and for the most part, they're not good ones. And then you'll follow through with a handful of them and sometimes you'll be pretty disappointed. And then other times you'll follow through and you'll go, 'You know what? It's nice to be right.'
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My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.
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I think that it will be the mobile technologies, both from the enterprise and the consumer side, where super unicorns will come from. I still believe that social networking in combination with mobile will create opportunities for super unicorns.
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A remorseful change of mind renders even a noble action base, whereas the determination which is grounded on knowledge and reason cannot change even if its actions fail.
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There are always wonderful mysteries to confront.
