Iain McGilchrist Quotes
Socialism and capitalism are both essentially materialist, just different ways of approaching the lifeless world of matter and deciding how to share the spoils.
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I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.
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I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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It's a very hard industry, and it's very cold. It's loving for when you have a hit record, but when you don't have anything going on, there's really not much support.
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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
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He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.
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Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.
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I was actually a Cowboys fan.
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The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
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A lot of the characters I play seem to be lying to themselves in some way. They maybe present themselves as confident or good at something, but in reality, it's clear that they don't know what they're talking about.
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My wife's family lives up in South Carolina, so we go back and forth quite a bit up there.
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I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.
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We try to organize the world, which isn't organized the way our brains want to organize it. We tell stories about the people in our lives, we project ideas onto them. We project relationships with people, we make our lives into stories. I don't think we can avoid doing that.
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The whole thing with VR is that it doesn't matter, local versus networked gaming. The goal in virtual reality isn't to have people sit in the same room with headsets on.
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Socialism and capitalism are both essentially materialist, just different ways of approaching the lifeless world of matter and deciding how to share the spoils.
