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 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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• One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

  

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• A Noah's Ark of mathematicians, their lives, loves, hard times, and madnesses, Loving and Hating Mathematics shows our community with all its warts as well as its triumphs. I especially liked the chapter on much-hated school mathematics, 'Almost All Children Left Behind.'

  

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• I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.

  

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• Well, sometimes when you say you want to be like everybody else, you're really saying that you're not.

  

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• The people in New York - their humor is on a level that goes, uh, very deep, you know?

  

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• 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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