Daniel Levitin Quotes

I have never seen a proton or electron spinning around it. I have never actually seen a chromosome. I trust that they exist because people who I trust tell me they do.

Daniel Levitin

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TrustPeopleMeNeverSpinningTell

I always want to do my very best, and it's frustrating to have something hold me back.

Jimmy Page

BestMeBackWantAlwaysHold

I recently read a collection of stories called 'Boondock Kollage,' by Regina Bradley. The stories follow multiple characters through the South, through the past and present. I loved reading that book: the first time I read the opening story, I was breathless and incoherent.

Jesmyn Ward

TimePastBookReadingStoryLoved

Just as like the music industry still wishes for the days when it controlled its own production and distribution, the media and marketing world still yearns for the silver bullet of the thirty-second spot on 'Seinfeld,' even as it knows those days are over.

John Battelle

MusicWorldMediaWishesSilverOwn

I don't care when people use the term 'one-Slam wonder' with me.

Andy Roddick

PeopleMeCareWonderUseTerm

'Good enough is good enough' - that's never been acceptable for me.

Amber Stevens

GoodMeEnoughNeverBeen

To me, rock music was never meant to be safe. I think there needs to be an element of intrigue, mystery, subversiveness. Your parents should hate it.

Trent Reznor

MusicHateParentsMeThinkMystery

I had water phobia since childhood without any reason as such.

Roop Durgapal

WaterChildhoodReasonWithoutSince

Obama might think of himself as one, but he is not a dictator. We are not a banana republic yet. This is not an authoritarian form of government. This is a constitutional republic, and the president doesn't allow or disallow. The president can't buy or purchase.

Rush Limbaugh

GovernmentThinkAuthoritarianBanana

I've had quite a few plays where I've just dominated the guy across from me.

Mike Daniels

MeGuyWhereJustQuiteFew

My parents told me, 'Skating is a privilege, not a right, and school always comes first.'

Ashley Wagner

SchoolParentsMePrivilegeSkating

If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.

Alfred Brendel

TraditionMasterpieceTellBelongHe

No innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than the sanitation revolution triggered by invention of the toilet. But it did not go far enough. It only reached one-third of the world.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

InnovationHealthPastWorldEnough

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