Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Quotes

You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

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ArtPeopleYouImageTakeCall

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

John Lennon

GodMeLoserThinksPartAlmighty

I don't necessarily like anniversaries that much.

Jean-Michel Jarre

LikeMuchNecessarily

I think sadly that Morse thinks that he can exist on his own and he only realises at the end that he can't and never really has been able to. I feel sorry for him.

John Thaw

SorryThinkEndFeelNeverHim

I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controversy is hounding me day in and day out. I'm quite amazed sometimes by the way they go about it. I grow a beard and it lands up in the editorial in The Times of India.

Amitabh Bachchan

LifeDayMeBeardMy LifeHelp

A fundamental principle that I learned in my career, and a principle that my consulting company McChrystal Group helps American civilian companies to adopt, is that winning units and organizations ensure that the time they actually spend - daily, weekly, and yearly - must hew closely to their priorities.

Stanley A. McChrystal

DailyTimeWinningAmericanCareer

Beyond individual intelligence, nature has also cultivated intelligence through swarms. For example, bees, birds and fish act in a more intelligent way when acting together as a swarm, flock or school.

Louis B. Rosenberg

NatureTogetherIntelligenceSchool

The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.

Jose Saramago

ControlMilitaryGatewayMiddleEast

Nowhere else is there so large and consistent a body of oral tradition about the national and mythical heroes as amongst the Gaels.

Joseph Jacobs

TraditionBodyHeroesNowhereLarge

I really love Juicy Couture - it's young and fresh.

Dionne Bromfield

LoveYoungFreshCoutureReally

Nobody knows why we're alive; so we all create stories based on our imagination of the world; and as a community, we believe in the same story. In India, every person believes his/ her own mythosphere to be real. Indian thought is obsessed with subjectivity; Greek thought with objectivity.

Devdutt Pattanaik

CommunityImaginationWorldBelieve

It's not a failure if a marriage or partnership ends after a certain number of years. I think, in general, we expect too much of partners. We can't fulfil a person's every single need and, after ten years or so, many relationships wear out. If we were more philosophical about it, we wouldn't try to blame the other person or be bitter.

Deborah Moggach

FailureMarriageBlameThinkPerson

I recently watched Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies, and it wasn't a favorite film. Then I saw the one that was made in 1990, which in my opinion didn't match up to the original.

Brendan Fraser

OpinionUpLordOriginalFilmSaw

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