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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I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I write about things that I am living or experiencing.
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I did not stop dancing; I did take two years off to get myself together.
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For many, many people, getting married is one of the most important things they will ever do in the pursuit of happiness.
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I love Martha's Vineyard, where I have had a house for thirty years. I have loved visiting countries around the world. But I always come home to Washington.
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The '50s in general are written off as a boring decade following the turmoil of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath - the postwar Labour government, the cold war, the arrival of the New Look in fashion, etc. But I remember it as a very exciting time - a pioneering, rule-breaking time, especially for the young.
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In the end, we decide if we're remembered for what happened to us or for what we did with it.
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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.
