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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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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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 was born after the heavy spade work of female emancipation was done.
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There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A small twist of fate can save or end a life; random chance is a permanent, powerful player in each of our lives, and in human history as well.
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Past humanity is not only implicit in each new man born but is contained in him. Humanity is an ever-widening spiral and life is the beam that plays briefly on each succeeding ring. All humanity from its beginning to its end is already present but the beam has not yet played beyond you.
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Even with uncertainty around the future of work in an increasingly automated world, Airbnb will remain a way for women to achieve greater financial independence and social empowerment in the years ahead.
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Your 'conscious life' is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons.