Matthew Walker Quotes

It's not that we simply get old, and memory starts to go, and sleep starts to deteriorate. But those two things actually are significantly interrelated.

Matthew Walker

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SleepMemoryGoOldTwoThings

An ordinary life used to look something like this: born into a growing family, you help rear your siblings, have the first of your own half-dozen or even dozen children soon after you're grown, and die before your youngest has left home.

Jill Lepore

LifeFamilyHomeChildrenDieHelp

You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.

Anatoly Chubais

SpeakLegalLanguageYouFindKind

Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I can understand that.

Steve Earle

PoetryPeopleWritingI CanPoet

I teach classes 28 weeks of the year, but the rest of the time I do research and write books.

Steven Pinker

TimeResearchRestYearTeachWrite

Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I've learned in my own life.

Ronnie James Dio

LifeImaginationMy OwnLittleOwn

The neutral and level playing field provided by permissionless innovation has empowered all of us with the freedom to express ourselves and innovate online without having to seek the permission of a remote telecom executive.

Marvin Ammori

InnovationFreedomWithoutPlaying

Space is something that you have to define. Otherwise, it is like anxiety, which is too vague. A fear is something specific. I like claustrophobic spaces, because at least then you know your limits.

Louise Bourgeois

FearSpaceLimitsAnxietyYouKnow

If what distinguishes us from other species is speech, then poetry, which is the supreme linguistic operation, is our anthropological - indeed, genetic - goal.

Joseph Brodsky

PoetrySpeechGoalUsGeneticOur

I have very special memories of the West Ham fans.

Dimitri Payet

MemoriesSpecialFansWestHamVery

Who thought it would be a good idea to undermine art in the school curriculum? Who thought studying the history of our visual culture was a waste of time? Who thought that only private schools should have that privilege? Was it someone who said we don't need experts?

Cornelia Parker

GoodHistoryTimeArtCultureSaid

A novel is, hopefully, the starting point of a conversation, one in which the author engages readers and asks that they see things from a different point of view than they might otherwise.

Anne Fortier

ViewPoint Of ViewConversationSee

I'm not trying to walk away from responsibility or anything like that, but I think there's a bunch of people on TV who get trust simply for being on TV.

Wyatt Cenac

ResponsibilityTrustWalkPeopleGet

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