Antonio Damasio Quotes
There's something that intervenes and is very important which has to do with value. Value in the true biological sense, which is that contrary to what many people seem to think, taking it at face value - sorry for the pun - we do not give the same amount of emotional significance to every event.
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I believe that you can always learn from observation.
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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What I hope to do in the States is to break up this stereotyping of Muslims and Arabs. I mean, we are basically the only sub-culture that is not represented in Hollywood. And it's funny because everybody is talking about the Muslim world and the Arab world, and we are not represented.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
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I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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As a species, we're addicted to the facile discrimination involved in saying that something or phenomenon is either 'this' or 'that' - how much more uncomfortable that it may well be 'the other'.
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Sometimes people will find things that are wrong. Sometimes they will even find an approach that you took wrong. If you think you took the right approach, then you just absorb the criticism, but you don't change your mind.
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My favorite way to spend Saturday is in and out of bed, watching sports on TV and eating.
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I'd take the syncopation and play swing, and then read the syncopation lines with my left hand.
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I have far more confidence in the one man who works mentally and bodily at a matter than in the six who merely talk about it.
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There's something that intervenes and is very important which has to do with value. Value in the true biological sense, which is that contrary to what many people seem to think, taking it at face value - sorry for the pun - we do not give the same amount of emotional significance to every event.
