Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Quotes
The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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I've actually changed my view of Los Angeles. When I was younger, I hated it, because I thought it was fake and superficial. As I've gotten older, I've found that to be absolutely true, but I don't care.
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I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.
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As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in different people's minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader's experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up.
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Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it.
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Most importantly, you have to stay true to yourself as well as those fans who made you who you are as an athlete.
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In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.
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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
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See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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I grew up being scared of the water, which is embarrassing to say as an Australian, but it's true.
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The true object of war fought for God should always be peace.
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I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them.
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It is absolutely true in war, were other things equal, that numbers, whether men, shells, bombs, etc., would be supreme. Yet it is also absolutely true that other things are never equal and can never be equal.
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When 'Romeo and Juliet' came along, I fell in love with the way that it was written and how innocent and vulnerable it was and how different it was from 'True Grit.' I really liked that.
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I follow the Patriots, but the Steelers were my first and true love. I still have a 'Terrible Towel.'
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Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
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You have to keep your eyes wide open and your head high and realize that you are going to be OK. I do this with work and with being a mom - I'm a true believer that it's OK to fail, and that there is power in getting back up on the horse.
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I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.
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Grief releases love and it also instills a profound sense of connection.
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We are responsible not only for what we do but also for what we could have prevented.
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Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament that is not yours and nothing that you would do would have any character.
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The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.
