Oliver Sacks Quotes

In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a sign of something awful happening to the brain, whereas in most cases they're not.

Oliver Sacks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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PeopleBrainAfraidSeeSomething

I know that it takes a coalition of individuals fighting against this very divisive agenda that the Trump administration and the Republicans are trying to push.

Jimmy Gomez

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Losing your parent is unlike anything.

Jenny Lewis

LosingParentAnythingYourUnlike

I always believe there's a reason why you go through everything.

John Elway

BelieveYouGoWhyReasonAlways

Sometimes when you're going fast, your instincts can be very useful.

Andrea Arnold

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All great results in our universe are founded in motions and forces the most minute.

John Joly

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My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean?

Amy Adams

WorkJobYouKnowMy OwnMean

Where I live if someone gives you a hug it's from the heart.

Steve Irwin

LiveHeartSomeoneYouHugWhere

It's no secret - if you know me, have ever met me or have shared a meal with me - that I'm a passionate environmentalist.

Sophia Bush

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It should be pursued as in the presence of God, and under the solemn sanctions created by a lively sense of his omniscience, and of our accountability to him for the right use of the faculties which he has bestowed.

Simon Greenleaf

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I suppose I'm really interested in theatre that provides an intensity of experience on another level.

Simon McBurney

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Once or twice in the height of 'Happy Days' excitement, which had more to do with Henry Winkler as The Fonz than ever had to do with me, we were kind of like a boy band for a year or so, and we would go out on personal appearances and feel the limousine rocking, and the grabbing at your clothes and people trying to steal your cap.

Ron Howard

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Democracy is not theater - it determines life and death!

Mimi Kennedy

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