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Daniel Tammet Quotes

Someone who copies a Van Gogh does not therefore become Van Gogh, and the same would go for Mozart or anyone else who contributed something that was original. Certainly in the way that I described visualizing numbers in abstract, meaningful shapes.

Daniel Tammet

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: english
Birth: January 31, 1979

Topics

Someone Numbers Go Way Become Same

One of the things 'Cosmo' feels really strongly about is we need more women candidates running, and we need more women across the parties in D.C.

Joanna Coles

Women More Need Things Running

Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.

John Berger

Single Blindness Pursuit Chosen Form

Use photos and videos often. The best startups post lots of imagery and videos. The worst ones? Text only.

Robert Scoble

Best Worst Imagery Videos Post Text

You wouldn't tolerate an underperforming surgeon in an operating theatre, or a underperforming midwife at your child's birth. Why is it that we tolerate underperforming teachers in the classroom?

Michael Gove

Child Theatre You Why Teachers Your

If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state.

Amos Oz

Compromise End Learn Unhappy Stop

Theatre is about the collective imagination... Everything I use on-stage is driven by the subject matter and what you might call the text - but that text can be anything, from a fragment of movement or music to something you see on a TV.

Simon McBurney

Music Imagination Theatre You Matter

Dee Dee got the name 'The Ramones' from Paul McCartney. McCartney would call himself Paul Ramon when he checked into hotels and didn't want to be noticed. I liked it because I thought it was ridiculous. The Ramones? That's absurd!

Tommy Ramone

Thought Name Ridiculous Want Call

Every day, do small gestures of generosity! It does not mean go to Cambodia. Do it at home. If you do nothing at home, evil becomes normal.

Rithy Panh

Home Day Generosity Evil Small You

I like my music to be like a buffet. If you don't like this plate, there's another one for you.

Romeo Santos

Music You Plate Like Buffet Another

I have always been attracted to apostrophe, perhaps because of its resemblance to prayer. A voice reaches out to something beyond itself that cannot answer it. I find that moving in part because it enacts what is true of all address and communication on some level - it cannot fully be heard, understood, or answered.

Mary Szybist

Communication Prayer Moving Voice

Now, to describe the process of the Wrapped Reichstag, which went from 1971 to '95, there is an entire book about that, because each one of our projects has its own book. The book is not an art book, meaning it's not written by an art historian.

Christo

Art Book Process Meaning Now Own

Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.

Conrad Hall

Music Writing Shadows Poem Like