Daniel Levitin Quotes

I think of the brain as a computational device: It has a bunch of little components that perform calculations on some small aspect of the problem, and another part of the brain has to stitch it all together, like a tapestry or a quilt.

Daniel Levitin

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My father was in the service. His job was to integrate the Armed Forces overseas. So that meant we showed up at military bases in Okinawa or Germany, racially unannounced. That made me, in that particular society if you will, the outsider.

Joe Morton

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We are spending more as a percentage of our entire economy, almost 25 percent, than we have spent at any time since the end of World War II.

John Thune

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What is the use in being a celebrity if you can't use the platform to help?

Amber Riley

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I didn't think I'd ever be able to do movies. That was for serious actors.

Steve Buscemi

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You can take lessons to become almost anything: flying lessons, piano lessons, skydiving lessons, acting lessons, race car driving lessons, singing lessons. But there's no class for comedy. You have to be born with it. God has to give you this gift.

Steve Harvey

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My God, war is not about bathrooms. War is not about political correctness or words that are meaningless. War is about winning.

Michael T. Flynn

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In order to understand why George W. Bush doesn't get it, you have to take several strands of common Texas attitude, then add an impressive degree of class-based obliviousness. What you end up with is a guy who sees himself as a perfectly nice fellow - and who is genuinely disconnected from the impact of his decisions on people.

Molly Ivins

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Every day I pray about all I do.

Dolly Parton

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We all have a hidden mystic quality if we can learn and trust to tap into that power.

Cindy Wilson

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I was 3 when I told my mom that I knew what my dharma was and that I wanted to be an actor.

Brie Larson

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Montreal bagels are much better than U.S. bagels, because there's a sweetness to the dough, and there's a pull. New York bagels are basically bread in the shape of a bagel.

Antoni Porowski

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I was acting for years before the band, so I would like to get into that again.

Ashton Irwin

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