Antonio Damasio Quotes

Some of us, for better or worse, develop very stable, consistent, and largely predictable machineries of self. But in others, the self machinery is more flexible and more open to unexpected turns.

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• In Europe, a great dancer might be on the same level as a movie star. In America, not so.

  

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• We've got in the habit of not really understanding how freedom was in the 19th century, the idea of government of the people in the 19th century. America commits itself to that in theory.

  

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• It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.

  

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• No matter what the president or anyone tried to do on health care, they never got the headlines, because the Gulf oil spill happened. It seemed like it sucked the wind out of the whole health care debate.

  

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• Change is inevitable, change will always happen, but you have to apply direction to change, and that's when it's progress.

  

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• I don't know if there will ever be a day that I'm not wearing heels. I'm a very big personality, and I don't like to look up at other people.

  

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• Growing up, as a kid, my father was always there.

  

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• I feel very tied to Ireland and the U.K. and that side of the world.

  

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• To build my legacy and be that person I want to be, this is what it's going to take: to get on the road and travel. Let's do it that way.

  

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• When I was five or six, I asked to sing at a big family party, and ever since I got up there in front of everyone in my suit - it had a blue collar, like in 'Scarface' - I had the bug.

  

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• I have never been insecure, ever, about how I look, about what I want to do with myself. My mum told me to only ever do things for myself, not for others.

  

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• The time has now come for every Latter-day Saint ... to do the will of the Lord and to pay his tithing in full. That is the word of the Lord to you.

  

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• I came of age during the Golden Age of rom coms - like the '90s and 2000s - there were so many.

  

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• Some of us, for better or worse, develop very stable, consistent, and largely predictable machineries of self. But in others, the self machinery is more flexible and more open to unexpected turns.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Worse
  • Machineries