Antonio Damasio Quotes
Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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If there's anyone in my lifetime who deserves honor it is Billy Graham. I think he is the most significant figure since the apostles.
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.
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I come from really humble people. We never had a lot.
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I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.
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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
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Print-on-demand and electronic self-publishing options have made it easy for anyone to set up a business as a publisher whether they know what they're doing or not.
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When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.
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It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio.
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I hate remakes of TV shows - I didn't like the new Charlie's Angels at all - and I just don't see the point of going back and doing the same thing over again. Baywatch was fun and successful, probably because we didn't know what the heck we were doing.
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We think we're going to be especially strong in platform where we have our two platform brands: our database brand is the Oracle Database 12c, and our programming language brand is this thing called Java.
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I've worked out for years. For a long time, it was my only sense of gratification.
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I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding after having kids, like Mary King, but people say that you lose your nerve after you have kids. It's the risk.
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It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.
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Driving a race car is like dancing with a chain saw.
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If anyone tells you it's impossible to be fabulous and smart and make a ton of money using math, well, they can just get in line behind you - and kiss your math.
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After all, tomorrow is another day.
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I think Ed Koch is the person most responsible for allowing AIDS to get out of control. It happened here first, on his watch. If he had done what any moral human being should have done in the beginning, and put out alarms, then a lot fewer people would have gotten sick.
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Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes.
