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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Song-writing is therapy for me. I'm a very moody person, very difficult to live with. There's a lot going on and a lot of contradictions. My life is always one step away from disaster.
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Kids gave Elon a very hard time, and it had a huge impact on his life.
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This is the only chance you will ever have on earth with this exciting adventure called life. So why not plan it, and try to live it as richly, as happily as possible?
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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With respect to their safety, derivatives, for the most part, are traded among very sophisticated financial institutions and individuals who have considerable incentive to understand them and to use them properly.
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Your 'conscious life' is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons.
