Brain Quotes
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How come every other organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy, except the brain?
Ruby Wax
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I encourage girls to lean in, use your brain, get in there, get in the conversation.
Krysten Ritter
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Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain.
Scott Westerfeld
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The part of the brain that is watching the television and is on the computer at the same time, preparing to jump onto the treadmill for 15 minutes, might be able to lead into sex, but it would be hard put to lead us to romance, or to real authentic human connection.
Marianne Williamson
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A gun doesn't have the brain to hate with, or a finger to pull the trigger, so the problem isn't the gun.
Alan Gottlieb
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Everything one reads is nourishment of some sort - good food or junk food - and one assumes it all goes in and has its way with your brain cells.
Lorrie Moore
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
Nadine Gordimer
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Sadly, I haven't had a brain cell since I had children.
Ali Hewson
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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
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History admires the wise, but elevates the brave.
Edmund Morris
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I wrote 'Ruined' and 'Vera Stark' at the same time. That's just how my brain functions - when I'm dwelling someplace very heavy, I need a release.
Lynn Nottage
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The fool has set in his heart that he can get more money through the tiring of his muscle and the starvation of his brain-but he can't.
William D. Hoard
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The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they're like, 'I have to change the baby and get the dry cleaning?'
Allison Pearson
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Our senses are woefully limited. Our brains are but tiny candles flickering in an infinity of darkness. Our only wisdom is to admit that we cannot understand, and since we cannot understand we must do the best we can with faith. which is our only talent. The greatest act of faith we are capable of is that of loving another more than we love ourselves, and occasionally we can be quite good at it.
Barry Hughart
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I used to visit kids with cancer all the time. Now I'm in the club. I understand what's happening to these little kids with brain cancer, and I ask myself, 'How do they make it through the day?' So you see a little 5-year-old and you say, 'If she can do it, I can suck it up.'
Curt Schilling
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The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process.
Edward Thorndike
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This is the very coinage of your brain: this bodiless creation ecstasy.
William Shakespeare
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There are pieces of paper scattered everywhere on the floor of my brain.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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It's mass confusion. I'm guessing on every shot. About the only thing left for me is acupuncture in the brain.
George Archer
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The human brain had a vast memory storage. It made us curious and very creative. Those were the characteristics that gave us an advantage - curiosity, creativity and memory. And that brain did something very special. It invented an idea called 'the future.'
David Suzuki
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Those who are clever, who have a brain, never understand anything.
Walt Disney
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All I need is my brains, my eyes and my personality, for better or for worse.
William Albert Allard
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I had a new idea in my head... this time it's just simply my bedroom, only here colour is to do everything, and, giving by its simplification a grander style to things, is to be suggestive here of rest or of sleep in general. In a word, to look at the picture ought to rest the brain or rather the imagination.
Vincent Van Gogh
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I spend a lot of time upside down. It increases the blood flow to the brain, so it really helps your creativity.
Daphne Guinness