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Jonah Lehrer Quotes

I always wanted to be a scientist, I always thought I'd be a scientist, that was the narrative I was carrying around. I worked in a neuroscience lab as an undergraduate and then after, almost five years in total, but I realized I just wasn't good at science. I didn't have the discipline for it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: June 25, 1981

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Good Science Discipline Thought Just

From the time I sang my first solo in church when I was probably 12 years old, I was bitten by the bug. From that point on, I never wanted to do anything else.

Time Church Never First Anything

Some people with blogs are never going to get famous, and they've been doing it for, like, over a year. I feel bad for them.

People Famous Feel Doing Year Bad

I've dabbled in several different religions.

Religions Different Several

I feel comfortable here primarily because I think Los Angeles is made up of people who don't come from here, so you can find kindred spirits very easily. It's a town of gypsies.

People Think Feel You Find Up

For me, I just try to make sure I eat enough and drink enough water and that's about it.

Water Me Enough Try Drink Eat

You can suffer for your art, and you can make your own self suffer for your art. You don't need anyone else to do it for you.

Art Self You Need Suffer Own

Sixteen- and 17-year-olds pay taxes and can join the army, so surely they should in turn be given their right to vote.

Army Vote Right Taxes Pay Turn

As actors, we're so used to the axe falling, and then we all go our separate ways. I can tell you, the feeling amongst the cast in 'Nashville' is, we don't feel like we're done. It feels like, in some way, we're just hitting our stride.

Feel You Feeling I Can Go Done

Kids can be harsh, especially when they get jealous.

Jealous Get Kids Harsh

Sugar makes me feel crazy - like, makes my body hurt kind of a thing. I don't really eat fruit because it has a lot of sugar. I try not to eat a lot of red meat, but every now and again, I feel like I need iron or something - something that I'm missing.

Red Me Crazy Fruit Hurt Body

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

Fool Artist First Make Himself Any

The Heaneys were aristocrats, in the sense that they took for granted a code of behavior that was given and unspoken. Argumentation, persuasion, speech itself, for God's sake, just seemed otiose and superfluous to them.

God Behavior Speech Persuasion Sense

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