David Perlmutter Quotes
While the hippocampus itself doesn't store memories, it serves to triage our experiences based upon their survival significance.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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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.
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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.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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I think that in the end, a talk show is a very different animal.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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I eat the same foods almost every day. I have my favorites like Filipino beef broth, chicken soup with lots and lots of rice.
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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.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
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When you develop a reputation for being responsive and generous, an ever-expanding mountain of requests will come your way.
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I just don't stop working.
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I have to be socially aware; I feel like that's my job.
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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.
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Time is not eternal but was created by God at the beginning.
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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.
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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.
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It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.
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We used to go in the woods by ourselves, and you can't help noticing the world then, especially animals. People used to know a lot about the natural world, especially in the country.
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A location-aware tablet will let us use what's called geodesign to compose participatory, what-if scenarios onsite, using maps that several people can share - something we could always do with paper but that's been a challenge with digital maps in the field.
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I have been a big guy all my life, I am not going to lose a bunch of weight, because then you're like that weird fat person that got skinny but still has a big head. I don't want to do that. So I'm just trying.
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Life becomes the way it is lived; and man may live the way he wants to live when he learns to think what he wants to think.
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While the hippocampus itself doesn't store memories, it serves to triage our experiences based upon their survival significance.
