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.Antonio Damasio
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Samuel Johnson -
My arrest in Egypt happened in 2002, and I was convicted to five years as a political prisoner.
Maajid Nawaz -
I'm here today because I hated everything else.
Wanda Sykes -
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.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
Dan Fogelberg -
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
Otto von Bismarck
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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.
Valorie Curry -
I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
Park Chan-wook -
A lasting architecture has to have roots.
I. M. Pei -
Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
Bai Ling -
Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
Karl Marx -
I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
Gary Hamel
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
Iris DeMent -
Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
Orlando Bloom -
I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.
Mackenzie Davis -
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.
Fiona McIntosh -
I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.
Nathan Lane -
I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.
Carey Lowell
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
Wendell Berry -
Having cancer is one thing; looking like you have cancer is another thing. It's a disease that already takes so much.
Amy Robach -
The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
Octavia Spencer -
Shredder is about as evil as it gets. He is a man fueled by jealousy and rage. At the same time, he doesn't micromanage, so his gang is free to do what they want.
Lenny Platt -
When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.
John Malkovich -
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