Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Quotes
If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
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Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.
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The bottom line is, when you're in the Senate, you have more of a voice in the beginning than a new House member.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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Virtually all of Darfur's six million residents are Muslim, and, because of decades of intermarriage, almost everyone has dark skin and African features.
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I'm hanging out with my New York friends, my Jersey boys, my family and loving every single second of it.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
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Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.
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The market for local advertising is in the billions.
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I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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I consider myself more of a cultural Jew; I'm not religious in any way.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.
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Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.
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All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.
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You'd expect, as good Darwinian creatures, we would evolve to be fascinated with how the world really is, and we would use language to convey real-world information, we'd be obsessed with knowing the way things are, and we would entirely reject stories that aren't true. They're useless. But that's not the way we work.
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I wear so many disguises on the show that only a real comedy fan might spot me.
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It was the Michael Jordan/Nike phenomenon that really let people see that athletes were OK, and black athletes were OK. Defying a previous wisdom - not only that black athletes wouldn't sell in white America, but that the NBA as a predominantly black sport could not sell in white America.
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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
