Thomas Dewar Quotes
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I'm not a good rapper. For whatever reason, my brain does not work that way. I just do the beginning, like, 'Yeah, yeah! Ha ha! Woo! What up? Come on! Get at me!' I'm Captain Hook.
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I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enough that I have a system of separating it in my brain from my egotistical neuroses for the most part.
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Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.
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A lot of boys in my poker circle are mathematicians who play on probability. I don't have that kind of brain, so I rely on instinct. But I recently found out that poker and cards in general go way back in my family gene pool.
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.
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Theater is where you go to find out something new that you don't know. It goes through somebody's brain and comes out in a comprehensible way that is beautiful, that's really interesting.
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For the last three years, I've been working on 'Bromst,' and that's all that encompassed my brain. And now that it's out, it will change the way that I think musically.
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Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
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As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.
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What is this? It's music to get a brain seizure by.
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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.
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I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
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It must be born in mind that one does not see directly - as is the case in the exploration of the surface of the brain - where the electrodes are attacking.
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The brain isn't like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex.
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With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome, the school-lottery migration, the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination?
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I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It's like having a mental workshop.
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I had grown up as an Irish poet in a country where the distance between vision and imagination was not quite as wide as in some other countries.
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Carbohydrates, whether derived from gluten-containing foods or other sources, including fruit, sweetened beverages, and starchy vegetables, are dangerous as they relate to brain health in and of themselves.
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Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
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When I stepped back from the gallery I was in a phase where I thought I wasn't going to be making work for a gallery context for a while. People were like, "You should never leave a gallery if you didn't have somewhere else to go," but I wasn't trying to disrespect the gallerists in that way.
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Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday.
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If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself - a rare type in our time ... you rise from table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days. But Oh! my dear Ernest, to sit next to a man who has spent his life in trying to educate others! What a dreadful experience that is!
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Fish stimulates the brain, but fishing stimulates the imagination.
