Daniel Levitin Quotes

Our ancient forebears who learned to synchronize the movements of dance were those with the capacity to predict what others around them were going to do and signal to others what they wanted to do next. These forms of communication may well have helped lead to the formation of larger human communities.

Daniel Levitin

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When people realize that they have been forgiven of everything, it becomes a little bit easier for them to forgive others.

Jennifer O'Neill

PeopleOthersRealizeEverything

At first, I was stubborn about not wanting to become a city boy.

Matt Cain

CityStubbornBoyBecomeFirst

My entire career, I've been a worker.

Andy Roddick

CareerBeenWorkerEntire Career

I used to teach kids when I was younger. When I was about 14 or 15 I started teaching children drama and something that I used to say to them was, 'Don't be afraid.' People would be afraid of forgetting their lines or something.

Stephen Moyer

ChildrenPeopleDramaSayTeach

I'd always loved writing, in the same way that I'd loved painting. I wouldn't have seen it as a career.

Robyn Davidson

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I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard just to go bankrupt. I happened to write some jokes about it. I did real well for myself.

Roseanne Barr

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Even with multiple instruction books, maneuvering the maze of the tax code is costly and time-consuming.

Mike Crapo

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I think that overall, the position - on a whole host of issues - should always be toward inclusion and equality.

Loretta Lynch

EqualityThinkInclusionAlwaysHost

The doctors and nurses at the Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital are saving lives every day and helping improve health care in the DRC which has been ravaged by more than a decade of war and disease.

Dikembe Mutombo

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Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture and so forth.

Cornel West

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The contemporary American novelist benefits in a way from being ignored. It makes you angrier and makes you want to go into all of those places where you shouldn't.

Colum McCann

AmericanYouGoWantPlacesWay

I got a journalism degree. I started doing journalism - I interned at 'Cosmopolitan' magazine in the 1970s, which probably wasn't the best place for me, and I spent six or nine months freelancing. Anyway, I wasn't that good at it.

Anne M. Mulcahy

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