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 will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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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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We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
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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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One predictor for divorce is contempt, which to me is just another word for disrespect.
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I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer.
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Cities are drivers of growth and wealth, and at the same time, cities are becoming increasingly violent.
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The way I approach an election, I assume nothing. I run scared as a jackrabbit.
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Progress. There's a good deal too much o' this progress about nowadays, an', what's more, it'll have to stop.
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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.
