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.
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My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
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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.
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We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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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.
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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.
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I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.
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I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.
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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.
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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.
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I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.
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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.
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I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
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Art must not serve might.
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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.
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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.
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I have a strong sympathy for all women who have struggled and suffered.
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Strength without agility is a mere mass.
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Power as an experience is as intense as sex. Power is more pervasive and unremitting. Sex has periods of remission.
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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the most important topics in cognitive science as a whole, but it had been surprisingly neglected in recent years.
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I'm a pretty funny guy, and I would love to do a comedy with a bunch of funny guys - movie-star guys, where they could help me through it.
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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.
