Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Quotes

We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

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• What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.

  

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• Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• If I had my way, I wouldn't be sharing my personal life online. I'm a private person. At home, I don't wander around shirtless, flexing my muscles. I roam around unshaven, with my hair disheveled. Unfortunately, people perceive you differently. It's okay; they're free to speculate.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
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• I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.

  

  Kate Moss
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• The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Dream
  • Society
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• There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
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• I really enjoy the fun of putting something out and people liking it or hating it or talking about it, but vacuous attention, it feels disgusting. It's like a hangover.

  

  FKA twigs
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• That word, fan, has always kind of bothered me.

  

  Omar Epps
  • Always
  • Word
  • Fan

• You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Want
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• Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.

  

  Rabindranath Maharaj
  • Home
  • City
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• Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.

  

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• You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Men
  • Age
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• None of our series are ever static in terms of the dates. We always have a range of flexibility to respond to whatever may or may not happen.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • May
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• I do this thing with my daughter - I put my hand on her face and shake her head, but really affectionately. But I didn't think, and I did that to Flea.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Think
  • Hand
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• It's an individual sport; you want to do well for yourself.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Want
  • Yourself
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• Teenagers did not have, before rock 'n' roll and rhythm-and-blues - they did not have any type of music they could call their own once they got over 4 or 5 years old until they were well into their 20's and considered adults.

  

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• In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.

  

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• I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.

  

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• You don't get nothing and like it.

  

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• From the dawn of the day to the dusk he toiled, Shaping fanciful playthings, with tireless hands, - Useless trumpery toys; and, with vaulting heart, Gave them unto all peoples, who mocked at him, Trampled on them, and soiled them, and went their way.

  

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• I believe we should appeal to people at the higher levels.

  

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  • Believe

• Wherever you stand, be the Soul of that place.

  

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  • Soul
  • Place
  • Stand

• Guys don't know they're pussy whipped until it's too late. Until you do something that lets you know, like when you shush your friends: 'Hey, man, remember that time we went to Vegas and...?' 'Dude, shut the fuck up about Vegas! The fuck are you doing?! The window's open, man! She's somewhere in the city!'

  

  Joe Rogan
  • Up
  • Time
  • She

• We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Fly