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 began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels. But poetry was always there.
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I just don't want to watch TV, and I know that life is short. I feel like I couldn't do all the things I wanted to do if I had several lifetimes to do them in.
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I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life.
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I make sure to use my life for that which can be of goodwill. It has fortified me spiritually and emotionally.
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New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19.
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Your 'conscious life' is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons.
