Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Quotes

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

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

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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.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Time
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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.

  

  Marat Safin
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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.

  

  Dana Carvey
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  • Look
  • Limit

• It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • May
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• For me, my writing benefits from my experience.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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• I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.

  

  Carl Icahn
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  • Feel

• I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • War
  • Me
  • President

• 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.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
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• The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Light
  • Like
  • Spiritual

• 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.

  

  Dan Blocker
  • Good
  • Say
  • Ride

• We don't grow older, we grow riper.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Grow
  • Older

• It's actually harder to write a fun song.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • 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!'

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Woman
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• If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • People
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  • Movies

• Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Kind
  • Place
  • New

• I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Nature
  • Deep
  • Human Nature

• 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.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
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  • Business
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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.

  

  Sam Raimi
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• Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.

  

  Charles Bukowski
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• I have grown up in Delhi in a way, and I keep coming here often. But, and I am sorry to say, I'll always be nervous when in Delhi. In my college days, I have had my bum pinched around so many times. So yes, in Mumbai, I can just walk around and do what I want to do, but in Delhi I'll always be scared.

  

  Preity Zinta
  • Up
  • College
  • Sorry

• I think I'm right-brained, incapable of managing my way out of a brown paper bag.

  

  Jeremy Grantham

• I'm a mac and cheese freak. Homemade or from the blue box, I'm not picky!

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Blue
  • Box
  • Cheese

• Holocaust Memorial Day is intended as an inclusive commemoration of all the individuals and communities who suffered as a result of the Holocaust - not only Jews, but also Gypsies, Slavs, homosexuals, political prisoners and dozens of ethnic and other minorities.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Political
  • Holocaust
  • Memorial

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

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Life