David Lewis-Williams Quotes
Improved memory made possible the long-term recollection of dreams and visions and the construction of those recollections into a spirit world.
Quotes to Explore
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I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life.
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After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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I was just so excited to have a child! I held him up like he was Simba in 'The Lion King.' I wanted to sing 'The Circle of Life.'
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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In tactics and training, we do more with Conte. We work a lot of tactical positions, and we know exactly what we have to do on the pitch, where I have to go, and where the defenders have to go. We know exactly what to do.
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Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.
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'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.
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Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that.
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work more in drama, but I have been floating back and forth with comedy, and somehow they keep giving me jobs in comedy, so I guess there's something funny about me.
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I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.
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I will keep my word. My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it.
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My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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Palermo was lovely. The most beautifully situated town in the world - it dreams away its life in the Conca d'Oro, the exquisite valley that lies between two seas. The lemon groves and the orange gardens were entirely perfect.
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I speak for those children who cannot speak for themselves, children who have absolutely nothing but their courage and their smiles, their wits and their dreams.
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse. The art world is filled with vibrancy.
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'Good enough' stopped being good enough a long time ago. so why not be great?
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Improved memory made possible the long-term recollection of dreams and visions and the construction of those recollections into a spirit world.
