Antonio Damasio Quotes
There is a sequence of events in our lives and so there's a temporal aspect to our experience that brings by itself, sense into the story. In other words, you were not walking before you were born and you were not doing X and Y before you did something else first. So there's a sequencing of events that imposes a certain structure to the story.
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Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.
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Any form of art is political if you make it that way.
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People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.
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I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.'
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We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.
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Turkey is a safe country. Stay there.
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From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.
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I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.
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I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over by Walter O'Malley, you couldn't even mention Mr. Rickey's name in front of him. I considered Mr. Rickey the greatest human being I had ever known.
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Mr. Trump, like too much of the church, offers little more than an excuse to project complex problems onto simple villains. Yet the white working class needs neither more finger-pointing nor more fiery sermons.
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What there is no dispute about is whether or not China is a currency manipulator. They are a currency manipulator. They actively intervene every single day to keep the value of their currency less than it would be against the dollar than if it floated freely. We think. Even China barely disputes that.
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I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.
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The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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I'm really interested in playing my age.
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I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.
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The more you draw attention to it, the worse it becomes. So it's better just to show up and swallow your pride.
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You can't demand generational change on the one hand and expect 40 years of experience on the other.
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It is more raw and unfettered and I'm more likely going into something you could call extreme cartooning. There's a lot of that in the course of 'Holy Terror.' There are interludes where there are pictures - cartoon pictures - of modern figures and they are all wordless. It's up to readers to put the words in.
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Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.
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It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
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There is a sequence of events in our lives and so there's a temporal aspect to our experience that brings by itself, sense into the story. In other words, you were not walking before you were born and you were not doing X and Y before you did something else first. So there's a sequencing of events that imposes a certain structure to the story.
