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Where does personality end and brain damage begin?

Douglas Coupland

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• My worry about this exclusive focus on Trump - the personality and how all of this is so unprecedented - is that then the solution seems to be, 'Well, we'll just get rid of Trump.'

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Focus
  • Worry
  • Personality

• Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.

  

  J. F. C. Fuller
  • Brain
  • Air
  • Body

• I'm interested in doing everything and anything that I can to squeeze that creativity out of my brain. I guess I'm sort of a performance rat.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Brain
  • Doing
  • Creativity

• I'm not a good rapper. For whatever reason, my brain does not work that way. I just do the beginning, like, 'Yeah, yeah! Ha ha! Woo! What up? Come on! Get at me!' I'm Captain Hook.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• Fashion is anything which is you and reflects your personality, and if you are comfortable with what you wearing, you'll look trendy and fashionable for sure.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Fashion
  • Personality
  • Look

• When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Character
  • Friends
  • Personality

• Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Alone

• The hippocampus helps record both types of memories initially, and it helps retain them for the medium term. The hippocampus also helps us access old personal memories in long-term storage in other parts of the brain.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Long
  • Brain
  • Memories

• I can't change my personality. I'll always smile, but I'll be more focused.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Change
  • Personality
  • Smile

• My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Heart
  • Brain
  • Route

• Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Understand
  • Motivational

• I want to talk about jobs and health care and pension security and what we're going to do to stop the brain drain in Ohio and make it possible for our young people to stay here and build a life in Ohio rather than in Pennsylvania or West Virginia or God knows where.

  

  Ted Strickland
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Brain
  • Direction
  • Ordinary

• I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Thought
  • Fly
  • Fast

• I'm restless. I'm all the time here and there and trying to get myself busy and creative. It's something that's part of my personality since I was a kid.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Myself

• What is this? It's music to get a brain seizure by.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Music
  • Brain
  • Seizure

• Some of the best writing I've done, whether I'm shooting a story or thinking of a script, I write it in my head as I'm running. Running literally jogs my brain.

  

  Natalie Morales
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Done

• I'm left-brain dominant, so anxiety and nervousness don't affect me; most emotions don't.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Me
  • Anxiety
  • Emotions

• My teacher said my brain was the size of a pea. He made my life miserable by singling me out in the classroom as a failure.

  

  Willard Wigan
  • Brain
  • Teacher
  • Miserable

• Avoidance of a global war of civilizations depends on world leaders accepting and cooperating to maintain the multicivilizational character of global politics.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • World
  • Character
  • War

• If you watched companies such as Sony and Samsung grow, they focused first on features and then on industrial design, which made their products look and feel better.

  

  Jefferson Han
  • Design

• I talked about the stuff so openly that people are able to connect and relate. I put everything out there [into the network], and if I'm having a bad time, people know about it.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Time
  • Bad

• Everyone was like, "Why do you need to meet someone on Match.com?" My response was, "I certainly don't need to meet more of the same broke, acting class guys that I'd been dating my whole life." I needed to change that whole paradigm. So, I decided to meet some corporate guys and see how that worked. So, I went on Match, but I didn't put a picture up, because I'm on television, and I didn't want anybody contacting me for the wrong reasons. So, I had to do the hunting, as it were. I didn't anticipate meeting my husband online, but there he was. And it all worked out!

  

  Essence Atkins
  • Guy
  • Reason
  • Husband

• Where does personality end and brain damage begin?

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Brain
  • Personality