Daniel Levitin Quotes

If you aren't taking regular breaks every couple of hours, your brain won't benefit from that extra cup of coffee.

Daniel Levitin

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India brings out so many different feelings in me. I've been fascinated with India and Indian culture as long as I can remember - ever since the '60s with the Beatles and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

Joe Perry

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The cure for cynicism is simply to engage honestly.

Jeremy Paxman

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I know from personal experience that the abuse of prisoners will produce more bad than good intelligence.

John McCain

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I can tell you that the book 'The Ugly Truth' is about puberty and all the awfulness that comes with that time in a person's life. It was definitely some different subject matter to be writing about, especially knowing some of my audience are second and third graders.

Jeff Kinney

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We look for meaning and purpose; children bring that.

Johnathon Schaech

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I think that all women, unless they are absolutely asleep, must be feminists up to a point.

Ruth Rendell

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Being the front guy is a hard job.

Ry Cooder

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I think we have a great deal of mythology around writing. We believe that only a few people can really do it. I wrote a book called 'The Right to Write.' In it, I argued that all of us have the capacity to write. That it's as normal to write as it is to speak.

Julia Cameron

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I was incredibly impressed with HOTorNOT, because it was the first time that someone had designed a website where anyone could upload content that everyone else could view. That was a new concept because up until that point, it was always the people who owned the website who would provide the content.

Jawed Karim

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I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service.

Joseph Heller

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I'm not into politics.

David Stern

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I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman.

Claire Messud

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