Paul Greengard Quotes
In terms of the brain, you can in a crude way think of the human brain as a computer.
Quotes to Explore
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Every piece has its own identity which we develop by the rule 'We know no limits.' We follow the inspiration of the moment and don't worry if what we're playing is alternative, progressive or fusion rock.
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I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.
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That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.
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There is a lot of food culture that goes on in the home and in the community in non-traditional ways. Food is a lot more than restaurants.
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Speed is more important than endurance in the decathlon.
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I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I?
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Building a home for neglected senior citizens is my long time dream.
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I don't have a normal job, so I really appreciate having friends who are writers and artists. It's fun to have a group of people you can call in the middle of the day to go for a hike.
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Halva works brilliantly in ice-cream.
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It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
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I worry that if I enjoy something - like the songs on 'Some Nights' are about wondering about who you are. I'm never quite sure and I'd hate to feel sort of content and get a good sense of who I am because if I know one thing, that's not me. I don't mind not necessarily being happy about it. And that's fine.
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The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and religion will become secondary.
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I'm the type of person to put myself in everybody else's shoes.
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I love family films. Of course, as a mother who has to watch so many movies, you really appreciate it when somebody makes a film that is for everybody - family entertainment that's really for the family, where everyone has a good time.
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If a script is good, you are 10 steps into the part just reading it. But my choices are not all down to my taste. It is about people you have worked with before.
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I think romantic passion is wanting a little something in return.
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Many of the Central Asians know Russian, and Ted Levin speaks it fluently. I speak Chinese, but Mongolian is completely different, so we had to have translators.
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When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.
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Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning.
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Real beauty in the arts is eternal and would be accepted at all periods; but it wears the dress of its century: something of that dress clings to it, and woe to the works which appear in periods when the general taste is corrupted.
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You're gifted to do something.
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The humblest is the peer of the most powerful.
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In terms of the brain, you can in a crude way think of the human brain as a computer.
