David Eagleman Quotes

My lab and academic work fill my day from about 9 am to 7 p.m. Then I zoom out the lens to work on my other writing.

David Eagleman

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White Americans have the option of not having to think about race on a daily basis. People of color don't. Race is a major deciding factor in their lives and the histories of their families.

Jess Row

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The frustrating part of being a movie actor is waiting in your trailer to do two takes of a scene you've prepared for two months.

Jesse Eisenberg

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That's where my job comes in. Getting the E.U. and U.S. to agree.

John Bruton

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You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

John C. Maxwell

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It would be easy to say that I want to play a role that was very much like myself, but more or less with acting, you get to be all these different things, and you aren't trying to be yourself, so it's escapism in a way.

Summer Altice

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In acting, I always try to go back to what would actually be the real situation, the real human behavior in life.

Robert De Niro

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It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.

Robert Byrd

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Believe it or not, I used to be obsessed with shoes. I have maybe 50 pairs... until I moved to New York, when I realized I couldn't walk anywhere in any of them.

Ruthie Ann Miles

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Progress is a choice.

Martin O'Malley

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Media is so weird; everything is so accessible now. It used to be this thing where, if you did something on 'This American Life,' this predates me, but when David Sedaris did it, for example, it would just play, people who heard it heard it, and then the book would come out a year later, and people would be like, 'Ahh, I kind of remember that.'

Mike Birbiglia

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I believe that the first 8 years are most important and the time in a child's life when parents must be absolutely and completely present.

Dirk Benedict

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I really challenge every actor at the beginning of a process, and I always say, 'I have an idea that I'm going to bring to the table. I hope and expect that you will have an idea and bring it to the table. But the way I really want to work is that together we're going to have a third idea that is better than either of our ideas.'

Diane Paulus

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