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Eric Kandel Quotes

I was born in Vienna on November 7, 1929, eleven years after the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart following its defeat in World War I.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: November 7, 1929

Topics

War World Born Defeat World War I

The U.K. matters with or without being a member of the E.U.

Matters Without Being Member

If we could establish a deep abiding relationship with nature, we would never kill an animal for our appetite; we would never harm, vivisect, a monkey, a dog, a guinea pig for our benefit. We would find other ways to heal our wounds, heal our bodies.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Nature Dog Relationship Animal Deep

I lived and languished.

Andrei Platonov

While I enjoy spending time in L.A., Britain is my home.

Home Time Spending Time Enjoy While

I would rather do three or four small parts every year as opposed to some of the lower-hanging fruit that might get my name above the title.

Fruit Small Name Year Three Above

After a great deal of thought and discussions with my family, I have decided not to seek re-election in 2014. Politics shouldn't be a career, and I never intended to make it one.

Family Great Politics Thought Career

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.

Work Love Hate You Theme Exhaustion

For me, drag is all about making people happy and entertaining.

Happy People Me Drag Entertaining

Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional newspaper or radio reportage is what a public intellectual does. But it's not merely about being oppositional, because that's too negative.

Perspective Negative View Political

I used to paint landscapes without any people in them but now I paint people who happen to be in a particular place. They might be outside a pub, or on a beach or in a studio. They might have clothes on or they might not.

Beach People Clothes Place Now Used

I get very nervous when it's quiet, because I think it's dead. What I learned in the moment was to hold back a little before you talk.

Moment Think You Back Quiet Nervous

I'm a scientist at heart, so I know how important the truth is. However inconvenient, however unattractive, however embarrassing, however shocking, the truth is the truth, and wanting it not to be true doesn't change things.

Change Truth Heart Truth Is Be True

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