Daniel Levitin Quotes

That daydreaming mode turns out to be restorative. It's like hitting the reset button in your brain. And you don't get in that daydreaming mode typically by texting and Facebooking. You get in it by disengaging.

Daniel Levitin

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BrainYouTextingOutGetYour

In my father's later years he asked several times that I remember him the way I knew him. He said that after his death, people would talk. They would say 'things' about him and he wouldn't be there to defend himself.

Jennifer Grant

FatherDeathPeopleRememberSaid

There are all kinds of addictions, and I've got every single one. If you set me in front of anything, I will do it until I ram it into the ground and it's done working for me.

Andy Dick

MeYouDoneWillSingleAnything

I've always chosen incredibly different roles and things that are quite offbeat. That way you're not limited.

Anna Friel

YouWayAlwaysThingsChosenQuite

I don't feel it incumbent on me to make sense of everything.

Trevor Paglen

MeFeelEverythingSenseMake

Dogs give us something just as we give something to them.

Robert Crais

DogsSomethingUsGiveJustThem

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

Rudy Rucker

WorkScienceWorldRulesOut

What is faithfulness, anyway? Can you be unfaithful to your own feelings and faithful to someone else? Is it faithful to lie in bed night after night with someone you love but no longer desire while ardently dreaming of someone else?

Mary Gaitskill

LoveLieNightSomeoneYouFeelings

I was in the superhero game at the wrong time.

Michael Landes

TimeGameWrongSuperheroWrong Time

Could I get a friggin' Hot Pocket around here?

Lorne Michaels

HotHereGetAroundPocketCould

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Arthur Schopenhauer

WiseFoolsSaidDoneSameAlways

I was taught to whistle as a little girl by an undertaker. I used to sit in his workshop, watching him planing wood for the coffins, and he used to whistle all the time - and eventually I started whistling, too. I can whistle anything, particularly trumpet tunes from Classic FM.

Susan Hill

GirlTimeI CanWoodWatchingHim

Kate Middleton's a pretty girl who sounds nice.

Peter York

GirlNicePretty GirlPrettyWho

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