David Perlmutter Quotes

While the hippocampus itself doesn't store memories, it serves to triage our experiences based upon their survival significance.

David Perlmutter

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• The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Sweet
  • Worst
  • Sweets

• If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Write
  • Songs
  • Works

• There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • You
  • Struggle
  • Yourself

• The American Federation of Teachers has a long track record of working with administrators, parents, and communities to provide real help to struggling students and low-performing schools. We've learned that intensive interventions, proven programs, and adequate resources can transform students' lives and their schools.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Long
  • Real
  • American

• A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

  

  Quintilian
  • Virtue
  • Laugh
  • Too Much

• I think that in the end, a talk show is a very different animal.

  

  Dan Abrams
  • Different
  • Think
  • Animal

• Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Growth
  • Ambition
  • Proceeds

• I eat the same foods almost every day. I have my favorites like Filipino beef broth, chicken soup with lots and lots of rice.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Day
  • Same
  • Soup

• I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Good
  • Money
  • Fun

• Our true nationality is mankind.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • True
  • Mankind
  • Our

• What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Faith
  • Kind
  • Speculation

• When you develop a reputation for being responsive and generous, an ever-expanding mountain of requests will come your way.

  

  Adam Grant
  • You
  • Mountain
  • Reputation

• I just don't stop working.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Stop
  • Working
  • Just

• I have to be socially aware; I feel like that's my job.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Job
  • Like
  • Feel

• My work is made on lines similar to those of a film production. A lot of my work is kind of bureaucratic, endlessly phoning up people, trying to find the cameraman and the lighting man, because I am a total technology-phobe, quite helpless with equipment.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Time is not eternal but was created by God at the beginning.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Time
  • God
  • Beginning

• At one point, when I was 20 and living in Kentucky, I got shot - it was a land dispute over six inches of property that ran a hundred yards through my grandfather's land. It was really over the honor of my family and that of another family.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Family
  • Honor
  • Grandfather

• Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Up
  • Future
  • Change

• We're a young species; We're only 175,000 years old. On the evolutionary scale, life on this planet is 4 billion years old. We're 175,000 years old. So we're trying something out. Who wouldn't think it would be better to have the most stuff to take as much as you could? As we do that, we see why the moral prophets come along and say, don't even store into barns, right? It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. We've seen we plunder nature. We plunder our neighbor. We create enemies because we're against each other.

  

  Tom Shadyac
  • Trying
  • Heaven
  • Moral

• I am a thief of knowledge, and in a survival way, I had to solve all the problems around me.

  

  Philippe Petit
  • Knowledge
  • Survival

• I was never one to begrudge people their memories. From a child I would listen when they spoke of the past.

  

  Rachel Field
  • People
  • Past
  • Memories

• I hope that memory is valued - that we do not lose memory.

  

  Studs Terkel
  • Memories
  • Loses

• As long as I keep getting cast, I don't care if it's typecast.

  

  Chris Pratt
  • Long

• While the hippocampus itself doesn't store memories, it serves to triage our experiences based upon their survival significance.

  

  David Perlmutter
  • Memories
  • Survival