Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Quotes
Your 'conscious life' is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons.

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I haven't done Vine in a long time, and when I first started, I just did stuff that I thought was funny.
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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I played with Michy for Belgium. He is still young; he can finish and is very good. He just needs to adapt to English football, and he will. He is intelligent and a good player.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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If I'm not interested in a woman, I'm straight-forward. Right after sex, I usually say, 'I can't do this anymore. Thanks for coming over!'
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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I just work hard and do things as they come along. But it has been a challenge to learn that I have to say 'no' to things and to know how and what to prioritize.
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Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.
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All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.
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The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian domeOutlives in fame the pious fool that rais'd it.
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What may not have value to you today may have value to an entire population, entire people, an entire way of life tomorrow. And if you don't stand up for it, then who will?
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The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
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Your 'conscious life' is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons.