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Daniel Levitin Quotes

Information overload refers to the notion that we're trying to take in more than the brain can handle.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: December 27, 1957

Topics

Brain Trying Information More Handle

I was thrilled when this year's National Book Award for Young People's Literature went to Neal Schusterman's 'Challenger Deep.' This brilliant book takes you into the mind of a mentally ill teenager and deserves all the accolades it's received.

John Corey Whaley

People Mind Book Deep Award Year

I want to start a Dunkin' Donuts in Los Angeles. I already have the perfect location picked out. It would be the old Tower Records buildings on Sunset.

Sunset Start Buildings Perfect Want

There's not really much destruction in New York besides the weather and it's a natural force so it's not like any destruction. But LA gets leveled (laughs). That's my comment to Hollywood.

Roland Emmerich

New York Weather New Hollywood Force

There's nothing more fun than acting on stage with a live audience and that immediate feedback.

Live Fun Feedback Acting Nothing

Everyone in the Middle East pretty much wants to come and be an American citizen, but pretty much everybody is angry with the U. S. foreign policy.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Angry American Citizen Policy Middle

I'm quite tactful, actually. I worry about whether people are all right. With my friends, obviously, conversations are quite free and uncensored, but I would never enjoy making someone feel uncomfortable at all.

People Free Someone Worry Enjoy

I must have read three-quarters of 'Anna Karenina' on my phone. Which might be a record.

Phone Must Might Read Record Which

Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four.

Sports People Black Final Population

Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.

Family Beach Brother Me Mom Miami

I've been reading scripts where they've been doing a lot of singing now, but within the dark, realistic story line. I would love, love, love, love to do that. But not a musical on Broadway, I don't have that kind of energy or stamina.

Love Singing Energy Reading Story

I don't want to play the fat guy or the friend for the rest of my life.

Life Friend Rest Fat My Life Play

It's hard for bands to stick it out because people grow up, and it never really pays off. If you're looking for some sort of payoff, it's not gonna happen.

People Looking Grow You Never Hard

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