David Lewis-Williams Quotes

Some researchers believe that dreaming is what happens when sensory input to the brain is greatly diminished: the brain then ‘freewheels’, synapses firing more or less at random, and the brain tries to make sense of the resultant stream of images.

David Lewis-Williams

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• I don't believe in one ideal beauty.

  

  Zac Posen
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  • Beauty
  • Ideal

• I was raised to believe that New England is the best place on the planet.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Believe
  • Best
  • Place

• Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they'd probably throw you out. That's very hard.

  

  Wallace Shawn
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  • Trying
  • Acting

• Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

  

  Kanye West
  • Believe
  • You
  • Would

• For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.

  

  Gary Bauer
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  • Faith

• You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.

  

  Napoleon Hill
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  • May
  • Fear

• I want to learn about a different religion. I grew up Catholic, but my grandfather was Jewish. Knowledge about other religions can help you understand your own better. I think it's kind of hypocritical to believe one thing and don't know about any others.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Up
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  • Different

• I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it?

  

  Maggie Grace
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  • Love
  • For Him

• I'm not a big fan of romantic comedies, believe it or not.

  

  Kate Hudson
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  • Big

• The thing that 'Glee' has successfully done that no other TV show has is that they're just honest - but they don't tell you what's right or wrong. They don't tell you what to agree with or what to believe in.

  

  Samuel Larsen
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  • Done
  • You

• I woke up this morning, and I still don't believe I won the Daytona 500.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Morning

• It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • Believe
  • Love
  • True

• I believe the Obama administration, from the president on down, has taken a very weak position regarding granting Palestine statehood at the United Nations.

  

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
  • Believe
  • Taken
  • Down

• I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.

  

  Beatrice Wood
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  • Happen
  • Afterlife

• I do believe that the states have the right to make the definition of marriage, and each state can define it as they so choose through their elected representatives.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Believe
  • Marriage
  • Choose

• As someone who specializes in deception, I'll tell you this much: When someone insistently implores, 'Believe me,' don't. Pleading 'believe me' or 'trust me' - insisting to people that you are telling the truth - is a tell-tale sign that you probably aren't.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • People
  • Believe
  • Truth

• Privately, I believe in none of them. Neither do you. Publicly, I believe in them all.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
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  • You
  • I Believe

• I believe we need more culturally diverse books - about disabled characters, though not about their disability, about people with different sexual orientations, or a boy who is a cross-dresser. We need to reflect the diversity of our society.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • People
  • Believe
  • Different

• The very first big photo shoot I ever did was with Bruce Weber. I couldn't believe this guy was taking my picture, so when he told me to get in the bathtub, I just did. It's only now, looking back, that I realise, you don't have to do everything people tell you.

  

  Matt Damon
  • People
  • Believe
  • Guy

• I can't believe that people actually know my first and last name. I think it's really, really, gosh-darn neat.

  

  Brittany Murphy
  • People
  • Believe

• I love film because you have the last word. I never get that on stage because you've got to really believe; you've got to get the actors to trust you, and they have to believe in you, and then hopefully they will when you open the show.

  

  Kenny Leon
  • Believe
  • Trust

• I sort of don't believe in closure. In the sense that it doesn't make me feel better to think that something is over.

  

  Elizabeth McCracken
  • Believe

• I have 3 kids and a cat and a busy, noisy house. I get more time to relax when I'm working.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Time
  • Kids
  • House

• Some researchers believe that dreaming is what happens when sensory input to the brain is greatly diminished: the brain then ‘freewheels’, synapses firing more or less at random, and the brain tries to make sense of the resultant stream of images.

  

  David Lewis-Williams
  • Believe
  • Dreaming
  • Researchers