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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People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.
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Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book.
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Although I'm not from London originally: I moved down here when I was 16, so it's played a part in my life. It's where I've lived for all that time.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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I am down mentally. I can't understand how it happened and who is to blame? I don't know why the ground was rolled before the final which may have resulted in losing key players like Hemanta and Zahid due to the hardness of the pitch.
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Your 'conscious life' is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons.
