Michael Merzenich Quotes
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I am the last guy that wants to quit making music.
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I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
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I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.
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It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
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All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose.
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What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.
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When I was a kid, I thought it was tough.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.
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Antwerp literally was a trash hole, but fashion changed that. The designers there were extreme, and their work was hard to understand. But now, people from all over the world come to Antwerp to shop.
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Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
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'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.
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I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.
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Under Obamacare, it virtually is impossible to find out the price of anything. That's not the way to make health care affordable.
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By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.
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The world for our law enforcement community has changed dramatically: everything from filling out paperwork to relationships with the community and how they think the narrative is in the media.
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My favorite team is the Bengals. In Idaho, we didn't really have a home team. But my parents are from Ohio, and when I was a little kid, my aunts and uncles would send me Boomer Esiason T-shirts and Ickey Woods mini-footballs, so I got hooked on those guys.
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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
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Oh, my dating skills are the worst. No, I pick the wrong men; it's amazing. I am awful, the worst dater.
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Self-doubt creates the impetus for learning but hinders adept use of previously established skills.
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I think that one of the reasons that we chose the word love as the subject is because your human connection and how you affect everybody around you, you'll only understand the gravity of that as you pass later on in life. I think as artists it's our ability to communicate that in certain ways.
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They're good players, and the knowledge and experience the new guys bring to this team is invaluable.
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There are some quite tricky challenges facing everybody working in Crimea and I shall be engaging with various government people.
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Learning a new skill can change hundreds of millions of cortical connections.
