Michael Merzenich Quotes
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
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My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script.
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You always gotta be on time, an hour ahead of everything. You always gotta be prepared.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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Everybody on this floor wants to send the same loud and clear message: that Congress is united in its opposition to terror and we are all deeply concerned about the future and security of our close friend and ally, Israel.
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If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.
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Human interactions, stimulated as they are by disequilibrium, never achieve balance. In even the most favorable transaction, one party-whether he realizes it or not-must always come out the worse.
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In our personal lives, we have a lot of businesses going on. I have a profession, I'm a father, a spouse, a good member of my community. How much of my time and energy can I allocate to each of those things? What I allocate becomes the strategy I have for my family, and everything else.
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I'm the ugly sister. I'm the fat one. I'm the transvestite. I have had those mean things said about me at least twice a day for the last five years. It's horrible, you know? But I can brush that stuff off.
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More cuts were needed to avoid exiting the eurozone.
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I knew I would never be cast as the pretty girl.
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I was very lucky in that my parents were very broad-minded. Because they had come from another country and hadn't been able to fulfill their dreams, they wanted me to be more of myself, if you know what I mean.
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My job, originally, was to write blog posts for their 'HubSpot' blog. They have a business model built on content. Then I was writing e-books for them, and after I came back from L.A., they had this new plan to launch a podcast.
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Dad met Mom in 1983 during the lead-up to the 1984 games. She was an Olympic downhill skier. In those days, the winter and summer games were held in different cities but in the same year, so there was more intermingling of winter and summer athletes at social functions.
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Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.
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I mean people have compared us to like the Grateful Dead and all these like psychedelic sixties bands.
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The hand that rocks the cradle should also rock the boat.
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Disease may be defined as "A change produced in living things in consequence of which they are no longer in harmony with their environment."
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What we take ourselves to be doing when we think about what is the case or how we should act is something that cannot be reconciled with a reductive naturalism, for reasons distinct from those that entail the irreducibility of consciousness. It is not merely the subjectivity of thought but its capacity to transcend subjectivity and to discover what is objectively the case that presents a problem....Thought and reasoning are correct or incorrect in virtue of something independent of the thinker's beliefs, and even independent of the community of thinkers to which he belongs.
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Here are some happy English soldiers.They are going to make the Irish happy.
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You want to attach emotionally.
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To learn is to change how you think.
