Antonio Damasio Quotes
The autobiographical self is built on the basis of past memories and memories of the plans that we have made; it's the lived past and the anticipated future.
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I'm not a psychiatrist.
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We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.
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My kitchen bench is covered with vitamins and protein powders. I go through phases when I'm sure I'm taking too many - but I don't get sick often.
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I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream.
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I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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I don't like controversy.
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One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
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The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
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I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.
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We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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I'm really proud that the LGBT community has gotten behind me because, as I said, I am part of the community, so I do as much as I possibly can for our community and for our rights, so it's nice that everyone is supporting me as well.
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I just love scary movies. I love the thrill.
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Not all children have the anchor of a strong family.
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.
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O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
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I often think about starting a band again, doing my solo stuff and a band. I grew up in bands.
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I see something that seems like standard fare, that I can imagine any number of actors playing, and I'm generally not interested.
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We are a people unafraid to welcome 'your tired, your poor, your huddled masses,' because we measure others by the quality of their hopes for the future, not by the circumstances of their birth.
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I read 'Game Change.' If you want to relive the campaign, that book is unbelievable. It's great. It's the book of that campaign. It brought all the memories back of everything with Clinton and Obama, and Sarah Palin and McCain, and choosing her, and John Edwards. It was an interesting book.
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Memories were moving pictures in which meaning was constantly in flux. They were stories people told themselves.
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The autobiographical self is built on the basis of past memories and memories of the plans that we have made; it's the lived past and the anticipated future.
