Antonio Damasio Quotes
I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and listen.
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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
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A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.
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The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.
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I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.
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Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.
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I will always be the way I was a couple years ago before anything happened. And that's to my parents' credit, my amazing parents who have been around me my whole life and raised me right. I'm very happy with what has happened so far.
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You don't want people thinking you're a cheat just because you're really fast and have broken the world record by a second.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.
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There is a clear link between illegal migrants coming to Europe and the spread of terrorism.
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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
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I always like to play roles where I either love the character or think that it's a story that I can tell better than anyone else. There are always reasons for me to do whatever I do.
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Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
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The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.
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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
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She was a young person whose reveries never were in retrospect. For her past was no treasury of distinct memories, all hoarded and classified, some brighter than others and more highly valued. All memories were for her but as the motes in one fused radiance that followed her and made more luminous the pathway of her future.
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I could never understand why our lives felt like a struggle while those living off government largesse enjoyed trinkets that I only dreamed about.
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Comedy isn't polite and it isn't correct and it isn't accurate, even. It's just a mess. So that's the way that I approach it.
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The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts.
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I have been working for over 30 years and am always wondering about where I am and where I am going. It does not stop and become a fixed event of achievement.
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I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and listen.
