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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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
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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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A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.
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I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
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I don't have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog.
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I always said God was against art and I still believe it. Anything obscene or trivial is blessed in this world and has a reward – I ask for no reward – only to live & to hear my work.
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I guess artists are living inspiration. There's something very pure about a person that fantasizes. I like hearing their stories, watching them work. Their take on the world interests me. It's not unified.
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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.
