Iain McGilchrist Quotes
Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap of intrinsically meaningless fragments.
Iain McGilchrist
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
Carlos Fuentes
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
Dabney Coleman
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Sometimes when I visit schools, kids will interview me for the school newspaper. They ask me questions and my answers tend to go on and on, and they try to write down everything I'm saying as quickly as they can. And one day, a kid holds up her hand and said, 'Do you think you could just answer 'yes' or 'no?' Aren't kids wonderful?
Patricia Reilly Giff
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.
Irving Babbitt
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
Wadada Leo Smith
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I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
Babette March
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
Madonna
Breakfast Club
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No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.
Gary Allan
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
Gautam Gambhir
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I wasn't very good as a puppet. A lot of times in a movie, you need a really good puppeteer: you're sort of a puppet, and you're doing what you can. But I always, from the beginning, was kind of making up my own stuff from stand-up and sort of directing myself, so I wasn't very good in movies where I didn't have control.
Dana Carvey
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
R. Lee Ermey
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In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.
T. D. Jakes
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A Child of Happiness always seems like an old soul living in a new body, and her face is very serious until she smiles, and then the sun lights up the world. ... Children of Happiness always look not quite the same as other children. They have strong, straight legs and walk with purpose. They laugh as do all children, and they play as do all children, they talk child talk as do all children, but they are different, they are blessed, they are special, they are sacred.
Anne Cameron
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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
Fareed Zakaria
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Denmark nursed that anger and it kept him free.
Orson Scott Card
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Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap of intrinsically meaningless fragments.
Iain McGilchrist
