Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Quotes
If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
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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 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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Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.
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The pressure on women to be thin is like a plague. I have gone through my life, like a lot of women, rating my experiences on the basis of, 'Was I thin at that time or fat?' And it doesn't seem to let up.
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I naturally have a really small waist.
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There is a better place, the hard but joyful work beyond struggle, beyond the shadow of a doubt. It is our real home, the long-remembered future when everything worked and things made sense.
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Family is everything to me. Family and health are the two most important things to me.
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God is not going to negotiate His holiness... in order to accommodate us.
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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
