Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Quotes
There are 100 billion neurons in the adult human brain, and each neuron makes something like 1,000 to 10,000 contacts with other neurons in the brain. Based on this, people have calculated that the number of permutations and combinations of brain activity exceeds the number of elementary particles in the universe.
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No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.
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We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
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I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every one as a young white male.
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Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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If I go out there and am myself, and I do what makes me comfortable and what I think is true to my artistry, and they don't like it, then that's fine. I walk off stage, and I know there's nothing there's nothing I could have done differently.
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With a focus on records and making money, you tend to miss a good story.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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I like to make my name of songs strange.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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'The Art Student's War' is, at its core, a traditional American wartime love story. As such, it is timely and engrossing. By the end, all its principal characters 'have been to Hell and back.'
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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I can get really nervous before a race. People will think this is mad, but sometimes I have got to the start line and thought, 'What if I can't do this?' But the minute I sit on the bike, I am like a different person.
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I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, there's no way you can prove anything!
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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
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Our plans for 'Superman?' I can't say. This is the most super secret thing ever. It's like working for the government, like I'm on a covert mission.
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We have to create a world where people can show up as whole people every single time.
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Singers- nothing sounds like you. For better or worse-there is only 1 of you. Don't homogenize your sound by making it just like the next.
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My legacy is to put my name in the history books in boxing.
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Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
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Desde hace mil años me pregunto: ¿qué haré ahora? Y aún no necesito responderme.
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There are 100 billion neurons in the adult human brain, and each neuron makes something like 1,000 to 10,000 contacts with other neurons in the brain. Based on this, people have calculated that the number of permutations and combinations of brain activity exceeds the number of elementary particles in the universe.
