Lucan Quotes
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The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
Gary Bauer -
Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
Yuri Milner -
When we're back home, I feel pretty domesticated.
Washed Out -
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
Edith Wharton -
There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Samuel Johnson -
We try to write things that work on a variety of levels at the same time: A sleek exterior with a turbulent lyric.
Walter Becker China Crisis
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I can tell you character traits I admire and work to develop in myself - perseverance, self-discipline, courage to stand up for what is right even when it is against one's friends or one's self.
Dalia Mogahed -
If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.
Yogi Berra -
I believe everything is about balance. I'm not 100% vegan, and obviously my fiance and my friends are not vegan, so I have to come up with a menu that will satisfy everybody.
Valentina Zelyaeva -
The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.
Walter Kaufmann -
Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
Samuel Beckett -
I don't want to be conducting Mahler with my head stuffed full of 10 million notes from other composers.
Lorin Maazel
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And in a flash I understood the meaning of sex. It is a craving for the mingling of consciousness, whose symbol is the mingling of bodies. Every time a man and a woman slake their thirst in the strange waters of the other's identity, they glimpse the immensity of their freedom.
Colin Wilson -
Men wanna be alone, but we don't wanna be by ourselves.
Patrice O'Neal -
Like when Jay Leno made jokes about Koreans eating dog, but the hidden messages, our invisibility, is more harmful to us than any of those fools on 'board'.
Margaret Cho -
Evictions used to be rare in this country. They used to draw crowds. There are scenes in literature where you can come upon an eviction - like, in 'Invisible Man' there's the famous eviction scene in Harlem, and people are gathered around, and they move the family back in.
Matthew Desmond -
It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.
Jasper Fforde -
A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
David Eagleman
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I got off stage and this guy walked up to me. He's like this ball of energy. His name was Lawrence Mathis, a manager. He said. 'I like what you're doing, and I'd like to talk to you. What are your plans? What are you doing?' I said, 'You caught me at a bad time, because I'm probably moving home in a couple of months.' But I met with him that next Monday and told him what was going on. He said, 'Give me a year to work with you.' I said, 'l don't have a year. I've got six months, at best.' He said, 'All right. Six months.' Five weeks later we got offered a deal from Broken Bow.
Jason Aldean -
I love music, it kind of comes naturally and has always been a part of my world.
Nick Jonas Jonas Brothers -
One of the characteristic problems of our time is how to close this gap between capabilities and foresight.
Edward Tenner -
A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Vivit post proelia Magnussed fortuna perit.
Lucan