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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I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream.
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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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I have a very strong passion to sing and paint. I'm really a student.
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A l lot of films I've done are essentially about women who are finding their voice, women who don't know themselves well.
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Redefining marriage will have huge implications for what is taught in our schools, and for wider society. It will redefine society since the institution of marriage is one of the fundamental building blocks of society. The repercussions of enacting same-sex marriage into law will be immense.
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If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few adventurers did this. That's my message.
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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.
