David Eagleman
Related Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what ma... ZERESENAY ALEMSEGED GLENN GREENWALD ALAN G. POINDEXTER KATRINA KAIF It's definitely a struggle to prove yourself just as a good human being. I'm so proud of who... TINA YOTHERS MARTA ZOOEY DESCHANEL How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS I'm very lucky with the people that recognise me - it's at a very tolerable level. I don'... SEAN MAGUIRE We all recall what is or was important to us and are astonished when it slips other people's min... RICHARD CORLISS SARA SHEPARD I'm definitely interested in exploring human contradictions. Contradictions are what make us hum... EDGAR RAMIREZ There's an interesting trend that occurs in times of mounting pressure and high uncertainty, whi... JOHN HAGEL III TRACY MORGAN THOMAS JANE I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was rea... CAITY LOTZ CHLOE THURLOW DOVE CAMERON PETER SINGER When I go in the studio, I put myself into a place where I'm feeling something I want to portray... JAMIE XX KARL MARLANTES It's a risk casting anyone against type or what they're known to do. But there's one thi... SAM MENDES JOSS WHEDON A Ritual to Read to Each OtherWILLIAM STAFFORD I'm always trying to come down with a win. That's what matters to me and my squad. KAWHI LEONARD MARTIN SCORSESE MATISYAHU GREGORY MAGUIRE MAC MILLER ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH NICHOLAS SPARKS STEPHEN CHBOSKY NICHOLAS SPARKS NICHOLAS SPARKS HARPER LEE HARPER LEE I'm a fairly unaffected human being. I'm easy to talk to, I hope. I'm not too bothered a... JAMES BLUNT JUAN FELIPE HERRERA ARUNDHATI ROY 'Cyberspace' is a metaphorical idea which is supposed to be the space where your consciousne... NEIL POSTMAN What's positive is moving from a place of growing in faith to really feeling more grounded in fa... DAVID GREGORY Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be... SANDRA K. COOK ARETHA FRANKLIN I'm getting a lot of stick because my character in 'Young Dracula' wanted to be vampire,... CRAIG ROBERTS GORDON BROWN I found I am not an anarchistic form creator; I'm intuitive, and I'm trying to figure out a ... THOMAS VINTERBERG When I'm doing a one-on-one with somebody, I have to speak in a language that that person can un... LEA SALONGA I will tell you that I'm a bit of a snob. I love film, and I would like to work in film, and I&#... KELLY MASTERSON DOUGLAS ADAMS CRAIG GROESCHEL Tyrone, I think they're taking to festivals. I don't know which festivals it will be at. It&... ETHAN SUPLEE BRIE LARSON JACK BLACK JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying an... ZOE WANAMAKER The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE It's quite fun to mess with the human voice. It's quite special in the sense that the voice ... FLUME IAN MCKELLEN EDWARD ZWICK Event cinema is what it is, and I understand why it's successful. It started with things like &#... DAVID MACKENZIE KATHLEEN HANNA I just got fed up with the Protestantism that I'd been brought up with being rubbed out, disrega... MELVYN BRAGG I'm happy to be on a winning team. My individual success, that lasts for a short period of time.... T.I. KURT VONNEGUT In some ways, this museum in Washington gets to do something very important, ... It can be a lens to... LONNIE BUNCH CHRIS EVANS MORTEN TYLDUM HUGH LAURIE ELLIE GOULDING There's a couple of tracks on the new record which is sort of using similar sort of rhythms as t... TOM JENKINSON OSCAR WILDE THORNTON WILDER ZAMAN ALI Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... I wrote about wasting time, which I suppose is a part of the great human journey. We're supposed... WALTON GOGGINS TOM COLICCHIO EMINEM People are totally overusing LOL and a wink - and I'm very guilty of using the wink - that's... CARLY POPE KEVIN SYSTROM Being a sci-fi geek myself and going to movies all my life, I came to the conclusion that there were... ANDREW STANTON ROMESH GUNESEKERA ROBERT MONDAVI GEORGE STRAIT I think people need to understand that with plays and with cinema, when you hear about it, call and ... ALFRE WOODARD C. JOYBELL C. MARLEE MATLIN JOHN GREEN DEYTH BANGER GARY HAMEL CHEN SHUI-BIAN I'm still really interested in acting, I love film so much. It's definitely something I'... OLIVIA CULPO As a human being, I'm concerned about the world that I live in. So, I'm concerned about peac... HERBIE HANCOCK LAURA MVULA Somebody had given me a copy of 'Hunky Dory,' which had yet to be a hit, although it was sta... MICK ROCK KELLY CUTRONE
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Ultimately, the reason privacy is so vital is it's the realm in which we can do all the things t... 
I'm really hopeful about the future of space exploration and human spaceflight. Civilization as ... 
Learning what all you can overcome as a person, as a human being, is very important. It's very i... 
I think what really matters is the support you get in football regardless of the uniform you wear. S... 
It's nice that there are movies and songs about romance - it's what motivates us as human be... 
Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it 
Listen, Bruce Lee fought out of anger. That's why they call it the 'Fists of Fury.' Mich... 
I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form a... 
Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. 
I think a lot of people think I'm either unintelligent because I'm a very happy person and I... 
I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subjec... 
I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thin... 
I think to an extent every human being needs to be redeemed somewhat or at least needs to look at th... 
Every year or so, I try to do something; it keeps me refreshed as to what's going on in front of... 
When I'm meditating on an idea, I try to let the idea completely saturate me to the point where ... 
I write because I admire the act of rationalization, of seeking clarity in one's understanding o... 
I'm gonna make music, and I'm gonna capture every aspect of being a human being. That's ... 
Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for... 
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. 
I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. 
As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... 
You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... 
You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. 
I'm a political poet - let us say a 'human' poet, a poet that's concerned with the p... 
I'm living to the edges of my fingernails, using everything I have. It's impossible for me t... 
Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift tha... 
I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more. 
In the beginning the Universe was created.
I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you. 
We're coming into a new generation of women where there's the submissive woman, and then our... 
With the acting, it's somebody else's brainchild, and I'm just sort of helping flesh it ... 
What's interesting is that some of the things I'm interested in talking about is a story whi... 
'King Lear,' I've been seeing all my life. I mean, the great actors of my lifetime... to... 
I would say that 'Schindler's List,' as powerful as it was, seemed to have continued wit... 
I'm not a goddess, for crying out loud. I'm a regular person who took feminism - which I hav... 
We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kid... 
The point is that when I see a sunset or a waterfall or something, for a split second it's so gr... 
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I don't think of myself as funny. I think of myself as rather grave, actually. And I'm suspi... 
I got a random tattoo the other day. It's a red triangle, which makes everyone think I'm art... 
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being... 
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being... 
Human is what he decides to be. 
You can buy a box of low-fat macaroni and cheese made with powdered nonsense. I'm not worried if... 
That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it. 
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If it's a good song and it fits me, that's what I'm going to do, I'm not out there t... 
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It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using. 
I'm a very introverted person. Nothing that's happened has changed that, but one of the reas... 
If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep. 
Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against i... 
It's true I didn't get a fair trial, but the problem is people don't understand the deta... 
I think, when I started writing songs, my voice just became another tool. It wasn't something th... 
I don't have time to write a mom blog, but I'm not against it. I think it's great when w... 
There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body i... 
There are an infinite number of boring things to do in science. 
As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University. 
I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've stil... 
The area where I grew up in Birmingham was very diverse - I was aware of my race but not overly awar... 
Birmingham people are the salt of the earth, and I've carried that with me all around the world.... 
Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all k... 
Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail. 
The Doctor' is the kind of character - because the guest cast is changing all the time, there ar... 
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Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time. 
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I always go for simplicity. 
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I like time off. I'm not a workaholic. 
I've had an awful lot of good fortune. 
Every day is a blessing - not to get too schmaltzy, but, really, it is. 
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The law always limits every power it gives. 
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False modesty can be worse than arrogance. 
This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top. 
If you read somebody's diary, you get what you deserve. 
What I value most in my friends is loyalty. 
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I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people. 
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Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill. 
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