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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Without question it may be said of Vancouver that her position, geographically, is Imperial to a degree, that her possibilities are enormous, and that with but a feeble stretch of the imagination those possibilities might wisely be deemed certainties.
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The job of the travel writer is to go far and wide, to make voluminous notes, to tell the truth.
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It would appear that the traditional parliamentary democracies can offer no fundamental opposition to that automatism of technological civilization and the industrial-consumer society, for they too are being dragged helplessly along by it. People are manipulated in ways that are infinitely more subtle and refined than the brutal methods used in post-totalitarian societies.
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Let God fling you out (as seed), and do not go until He does. If you select your own spot, you will prove an empty pod. If God sows you, you will bring forth fruit.
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Fish stimulates the brain, but fishing stimulates the imagination.
