Edward Boyden Quotes
One of the things that got me transitioning from physical science to brain science was asking, Why do we understand so much about the universe?
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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If they understand, which I believe they really are sensing, that the alternative the Republicans have been offering is to repeal what we've done, to go back to Bush policies - and if you asked the public what would you prefer, Bush economic policies or Obama economic policies, they take and prefer Obama economic policies.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'
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I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.
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These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act scripting and where to put the reversal and all of that - and I think we can do more interesting narratives.
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A man is as alive as he can communicate.
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The fans sing my name around the world. When I meet fans, they ask, 'How are you? All good with your family?'
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You were born as the one you are.
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It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.
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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
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Paper Moon didn't bring me love.
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Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
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Everything we earn we need as a reserve.
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My sense of designing is a mix of intuition and intellectual control.
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A book I would take with me to a desert island is 'Paradise Lost,' which I studied in college and hated so much by the end of the class that I never wanted to see it again.
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My sister married an American and took his name, and my brother has shortened Sayrafiezadeh to Sayraf. So now he's Jacob Sayraf, or sometimes Jake Sayraf. He made the change when he was a teenager, prior to the Iranian revolution and the hostage crisis. So I don't think it was motivated by any anti-Iranian sentiment in the United States.
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An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program.
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I tend to stay up very late at night, so I wake up later in the day. This allows me to be in the middle of my workday when I am onstage at night.
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I climbed brick facades as a kid. You'd kind of stick your fingers in there.
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In the future (...) people will become more sensitive and aware than they are now. They will have to, because society will become more complicated, more full of people, with more different things happening. People will have to become much cleverer and much sharper. Then they will like my music.
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One of the things that got me transitioning from physical science to brain science was asking, Why do we understand so much about the universe?
