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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Given the volume of PC sales and the way McAfee runs its operation, I imagine there must be thousands of phantom subscribers - folks who signed up once upon a time and left the software behind two or three computers ago.
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There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.
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When you're undocumented, you're supposed to keep your head down and be quiet and pay taxes, social security - even though people don't know that we do those things - and not say anything.
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I'm deeply concerned. And I think, in many ways, the Trump presidency poses a clear and present danger to our country and to the world.
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Children - change that to infants - dream of their past lives, remembering; for example, how to walk and talk. They are born with the knowledge of how to think, with the propensity for language. They are guided by memories that they later forget.
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There are always wonderful mysteries to confront.
