Eric Kandel Quotes
I was born in Vienna on November 7, 1929, eleven years after the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart following its defeat in World War I.
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I like independent films... European films. I do go and see popular films as well because my kids force me.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.
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I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.
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Since I played a warrior in 'Magadheera,' my character sported shoulder-length hair and a thick beard.
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I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that - and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.
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Sufficient for me is that honour which is not seen of men but is felt in the heart, as faithful is He who hath promised and who never lies.
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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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When you love something, it doesn't feel like work.
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Lyndon Johnson, his 44-state landslide in 1964 and Great Society notwithstanding, was by 1968 a failed president being repudiated in the primaries of his own party.
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Is an out-of-control life challenge making you feel 'out of control' over your entire life? If so, stop lying around doing nothing. Stop sleeping late. Stop watching too much TV. Start recognizing that this lack of a disciplined schedule will only increase your feelings of being out of control of your life.
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We need to begin an all-out diplomatic offensive on Darfur in order to prepare the way for a peacekeeping force that can ensure protection for the people of Darfur.
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I was unhappy and so is every soul unhappy which is tied to its love for mortal things; when it loses them, it is torn in pieces, and it is then that it comes to realize the unhappiness which was there even before it lost them.
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After only two or three weeks in office, we discovered we had a backlog of 100,000 emails sent to me. We had a backlog of a thousand invitations to speak at places all over the country - and all over the world, for that matter.
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There is more value in placing a flower in a rifle barrel than making war. As Jimi Hendrix used to say, musical notes have more importance than bullets.
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I could take everything I have built up over 35 years in my ministry and destroy it all if I went out tomorrow and committed one act of rebellion.
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I was born in Vienna on November 7, 1929, eleven years after the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart following its defeat in World War I.
