Oliver Sacks Quotes

If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.

Oliver Sacks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: July 9, 1933 - August 30, 2015

Topics

ManEyeSelfLostKnowLeg

I did a pilot for Fox years ago called 'Faceless,' with Sean Bean. I always thought it was such a cool show because it was really raw. I thought we were pushing it. This was back at a time before there was the 'cable standard.'

Joe Carnahan

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By the time I sit down ready to write, I've done a lot of longhand and a lot of note collecting along the way.

Jill McCorkle

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Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.

John Lydon

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Sleep deprivation robs you of mental strength and impairs your ability to deal with stressful events.

Amy Morin

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Character actors just pile up the credits because you work on a movie for, like, a few days. It's not like I'm the lead in everything I do - far from it. I'm not spending three or four months on a picture; I'm spending three or four weeks. Sometimes three or four days.

Steve Buscemi

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But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication.

Tony Conrad

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'Shaggy Dog' was a very, very important movie for me. It was a very enjoyable experience.

Robert Downey, Jr.

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When Zionism becomes co-extensive with Jewishness, Jewishness is pitted against the diversity that defines democracy, and if I may say so, betrays one of the most important ethical dimensions of the diasporic Jewish tradition: namely, the obligation of co-habitation with those different from ourselves.

Judith Butler

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All along, I've been writing about our fears, our longings, our fantasies, our ambivalences. When I decided to study psychoanalysis, I did it because I wanted to understand the psychodynamics of it all. Though far from perfect, psychoanalysis offered me a huge, wonderful window on all that.

Judith Viorst

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I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company.

Courtney B. Vance

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I just love making music, and I wouldn't want to stop.

Brendon Urie

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I don't spend money on the lavish life, but I spend on excessive green juices.

Riley Keough

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