Rita Levi-Montalcini Quotes
Progress depends on our brain. The most important part of our brain, that which is neocortical, must be used to help others and not just to make discoveries.Rita Levi-Montalcini
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My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
Wayne Thiebaud -
I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
Nas -
We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
Warren E. Burger -
My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
Jack Black -
Focus on remedies, not faults.
Jack Nicklaus -
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
Oscar Wilde
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
Nancy Gibbs -
I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.
Jack Nicholson -
I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.
Kaki King -
I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.
Gary Johnson -
Every writer writes in different ways, and so some write the music first, while others write the lyrics first, and some write while they are doing other things, and it is just nice to see how other writers are writing.
Valerie June -
I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.
Sally Hawkins
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It's getting worse under Prime Minister Modi. The economic miracle has failed, to a degree, and people are reaching back to a kind of imagined Hindu past for a feeling of pride. And that feeling of pride necessarily comes from denying any kind of Muslim heritage. People my age seem to be becoming illiberal in a way that I'm surprised by.
Karan Mahajan -
Art must not serve might.
Karel Capek -
It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon.
Marat Safin -
As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I have a strong sympathy for all women who have struggled and suffered.
Edmonia Lewis -
Strength without agility is a mere mass.
Fernando Pessoa
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It is my duty, gentlemen, to inform you that women are dictatorsall, and I recommend to you this moral:In real life it takes only one to make a quarrel.
Ogden Nash -
We are all vulnerable to the tendency to overestimate the likelihood of vivid, cognitively available risks rather than statistically likelier, but less salient, risks.
Karl Iagnemma -
I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks -
What I like best about music is when time goes away.
Bob Weir Grateful Dead -
Progress depends on our brain. The most important part of our brain, that which is neocortical, must be used to help others and not just to make discoveries.
Rita Levi-Montalcini