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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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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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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There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.
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I know so many Irish musicians. They're all over, because there has been so much emigration from Ireland. Like the Jews.
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If I start working on something, I get a little too driven.
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The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest.
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History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis - real or manufactured.
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Life came in and put me in front of the camera before I could really make a decision, but I think I probably would have gravitated to film.
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It's too easy to say that orange is happy and black is sad. To me, black is perfect. You can fill it with the emotion you want to express.
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I want people to look at me in the future and feel that there's this Asian hip-hop artist who's fresh and hot.
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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.
