Antonio Damasio Quotes
How can you have this reference point, this stability, that is required to maintain the continuity of selves day after day?
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I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
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I don't care if I never see Texas again.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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I have, like, 45 celeb crushes at all times - celeb and Instagram crushes. I'm such a creep.
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What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.
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As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix 'ology' at the end of it, like marine biology or entomology. But after I started to do some acting gigs, I thought it wasn't a bad thing... I said to myself, 'I might as well keep riding this bus until the wheels fall off.'
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If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.
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I'm getting fat... because my size, I put on 20 or 30 pounds, it doesn't show very much... I'm thinking about going back to work out in a very short time.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.
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My dream date is a tall, dark, handsome, blue eyed man with a bubble butt who will whisk me away to Paris in a hot air balloon to wine me, dine me and.
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Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.
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I'm a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the words, and that's what I do.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.
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Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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Touring is an incredibly isolated situation. I don't know how people tour for years on end. You find a lot of people who can't stop touring, and it's because they don't know how to come back into life. It's sort of unreal.
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How can you have this reference point, this stability, that is required to maintain the continuity of selves day after day?
