Daniel Levitin Quotes

That walk around the block, that fresh air, is going to help you work more quickly and effectively when you get back.

Daniel Levitin

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WorkWalkHelpYouBackFresh Air

Deed, not words shall speak me.

John Fletcher

WordsMeSpeakShallDeed

I don't know if it's how I speak or what it is about me that presents that sort of label, but I don't know how many times I have to be out in public with a girlfriend to stop that from being said.

Jeff Garcia

MeSpeakStopKnowSaidGirlfriend

The daily glitter of skyscrapers competing with the stars is an unnecessary, unforgivable decadence.

Stephen Hough

StarsDailyGlitterSkyscrapers

A lot of people get very misty-eyed about celluloid. When I think of the time that's wasted in sending it back to the lab and having it developed and brought back, it would make me insane. I love getting my hands on the stuff immediately. That doesn't work for everybody. It just works for me.

Steven Soderbergh

WorkLoveTimePeopleMeThink

We have to be evangelists for music. We couldn't just be high priests of music.

Simon Rattle

MusicHighJustJust BePriests

I'd like to do something that involves music.

Michelle Dockery

MusicSomethingLikeInvolves

A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel.

Mo Yan

ThoughtsDeepThroughWriterShould

I think there's this idea that the depth of an actor's performance is built on tough times or horrible events or isolation, but I never found that. I figured that my imagination coupled with the story can get me anywhere.

Milo Ventimiglia

Tough TimesImaginationMeIsolation

There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.

Jose Rizal

TyrantsWhereSlaves

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.'

Claude Pepper

FunnyAgeValueMeGreenYear

In my teenage years I was put off the idea of a career in flying, because I'd convinced myself that you had to be a boffin with degrees in maths and physics, which were my weakest subjects.

Bruce Dickinson

MyselfFlyingYouPhysicsCareer

I first got really interested in Noh in about 1977. There was an independent bookstore in Bloomington, Indiana where I was going to high school. It was a really nice place. There was a New Directions paperback. It was the Pound/Fenollosa book, 'The Classic Noh Theatre of Japan.'

William T. Vollmann

SchoolTheatreBookHigh SchoolNice

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