Antonio Damasio Quotes
People who are great thinkers, in science or in art, people who are great performers, have to have that kind of capacity. Without that kind of capacity, it's extremely difficult to manage a high level of performance because you're going to get a lot of extraneous material chipping away at the finery of your thinking or the finery of your motor execution.
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My arrest in Egypt happened in 2002, and I was convicted to five years as a political prisoner.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or something. Maybe it won't be cured, but you've got to take the medication you're prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.
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I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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A lasting architecture has to have roots.
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
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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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Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
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I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.
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What I find is that it's the middle-aged authors who have lived a life who have the most important, interesting voices. They just need someone to give them the key to unlock the door.
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Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.
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I've been blackmailed a billion times. I've been sued for ridiculous things. At one point in my life, I was an ATM machine. But I'm used to that. You don't get used to it, but I'm used to the fact that people will do this, even your own family members, and I don't hate none of them.
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I think you have to want to be really famous. It's a lot easier to sabotage your career than to have a career to sabotage.
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I'm a wicked ping-pong player.
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I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had no friends, I couldn't speak the language. I was very isolated.
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People who are great thinkers, in science or in art, people who are great performers, have to have that kind of capacity. Without that kind of capacity, it's extremely difficult to manage a high level of performance because you're going to get a lot of extraneous material chipping away at the finery of your thinking or the finery of your motor execution.
Antonio Damasio