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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To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
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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 Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.
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I starved and slept on park benches. I wrapped myself in the pages of my manuscript to keep warm. For two and a half years I took odd jobs; nothing was going to deter me.
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What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.
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The Silverlake Conservatory is a nonprofit music school in Los Angeles where we teach music, mostly to kids, but to people of all ages - people who are old, people with beards, all kinds of people.
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I was lucky to become a Facebook board member in late 2008. Restricted stock units granted me at the time have increased many times in value.
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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.
