Jonah Lehrer Quotes
Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It's a skill.
Quotes to Explore
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Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
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People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.
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It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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I've been able to make some wonderful films, but sometimes you make films with great passion - great belief - and these films slightly don't work at the box office, and they become your favorite films.
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I look for my opportunities, not trying to go outside of my genuine realm, because leadership has to be genuine and authentic.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.
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I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.
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When I eat something like vegetable bibimbap, I get that warm and fuzzy feeling of eating stuff that I grew up with.
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I'm not religious, so theres no church on Sunday.
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Most rich countries have reported increases in happiness as they become richer.
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The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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When you're doing a startup, life is not all roses and rainbows, like you see on Instagram, and killing it.
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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
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A lot of the things I was doing on the first couple Washed Out releases was very naive.
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I'm going to be doing solo stuff. The idea is to do 'small' and 'off my beaten path,' or go back to an old, beaten path - do some smaller things that I haven't done in 15 or 20 years. Just to sort of get my feet wet, because I haven't done my own material for a couple of years - I've been doing a lot of other things.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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Plot and melodrama were in every life; in some so briefly as hardly to be recognized, in others-in that of certain men and women in the public eye, for instance-they were almost in the nature of a continuous performance.
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It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.
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All my books have been titled based on a piece of the prose from inside the book.
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Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It's a skill.
