Oliver Sacks
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In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a s... OLIVER SACKS I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means. OLIVER SACKS I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over. OLIVER SACKS Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbe... OLIVER SACKS I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the ... OLIVER SACKS I think hallucinations need to be discussed. There are all sorts of hallucinations, and then many so... OLIVER SACKS If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us ... OLIVER SACKS To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, esc... OLIVER SACKS We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is... OLIVER SACKS With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while they're going on, you will... OLIVER SACKS My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in... OLIVER SACKS Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some de... OLIVER SACKS I find my thoughts drifting to the Sabbath, the day of rest, the seventh day of the week, and perhap... OLIVER SACKS In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the pers... OLIVER SACKS There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, ou... OLIVER SACKS The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact ... OLIVER SACKS من السهل تذكر الأمور الجميلة في الحياة ، الأوقات التي ي... 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ANDREW SACKS Her public perception as a mother is very strong. ANDREW SACKS JONATHAN SACKS We left the meeting with a list of open issues, not a handshake. DAVID SACKS JONATHAN SACKS This is really groundbreaking. We were very surprised by this data. FRANK SACKS This is a modified version of the old diet, ... The DASH diet was a real breakthrough for lowering b... FRANK SACKS For the scrapbook, I put a lot of pictures in, along with postcards and pamphlets from the offices o... MARLA SACKS JONATHAN SACKS JONATHAN SACKS JONATHAN SACKS JONATHAN SACKS JONATHAN SACKS JONATHAN SACKS JONATHAN SACKS JONATHAN SACKS JONATHAN SACKS JONATHAN SACKS JONATHAN SACKS JONATHAN SACKS JONATHAN SACKS JONATHAN SACKS We're thrilled to be partners with Fox Searchlight. DAVID SACKS JONATHAN SACKS JONATHAN SACKS I know when my company has closed a deal and when it hasn't. DAVID SACKS We're incredibly proud that 'Smoking' is our debut film and we're thrilled to be partners with Fox S... DAVID SACKS JONATHAN SACKS JONATHAN SACKS JONATHAN SACKS JONATHAN SACKS This diet should be a frontrunner. It improved the whole cardiovascular risk spectrum. A lot of pati... FRANK SACKS This diet should be a frontrunner, ... It improved the whole cardiovascular risk spectrum. A lot of ... FRANK SACKS We think people will like these diets better than low-fat high carbohydrate diets because it gives t... FRANK SACKS I'm in favor of drug therapy and being aggressive with drug therapy with patients who are high risk ... FRANK SACKS [Making these changes] is going to prevent people from getting into trouble later in life, having he... FRANK SACKS More people will take it and many people think it's the panacea, which it's not, ... Who's going to ... FRANK SACKS First, dealers are ignoring their best customers. They are spending 80 percent of their time on walk... JEFF SACKS Over 60 percent of all dealership costs are personnel related. 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LEO SACKS I don't think any responsible performer would go on stage high. If he convinced himself he is better... OLIVER I don't try to analyze my style now or I might lose it. Right now it's automatic and I don't want to... OLIVER I think some entertainers have been very irresponsible in their part in making drug use a fad among ... OLIVER I wouldn't say I'm happy, but I look at things in a soft way. I try to convey more personal interact... OLIVER My job is to entertain people by playing my music well. You shouldn't really be upset because people... OLIVER I like working alone. I feel freer, less constrained. I know what I have to do and I try to do it. T... OLIVER Money is being made programmable. That's a fundamental change with implications we can still bar... DAVID O. SACKS If you allowed PayPal to pursue its destiny, there are moves it could make to become the largest fin... DAVID O. 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OLIVER PLATT I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the scrip... OLIVER PLATT You know that was much more of a kind of cameo, I love the movie, I love the story, I love Johnny as... OLIVER PLATT You know, grieve your wife, this is an impulsive thing and you have no idea the kind of trouble you&... OLIVER PLATT The directors that I end up having a really good time with are the ones that understand the fluidity... OLIVER PLATT People start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't ha... OLIVER PLATT OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH A Germany team should not be afraid going into a tournament. History shows that we can raise the lev... 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A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself. 
Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost ... 
There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or h... 
No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them. 
A man must know his destiny
if he does not recognize it, then he is lost. By this I mean, once, tw... 
A man must know his destiny… if he does not recognize it, then he is lost. By this I mean, once, t... 
A man must know his destiny… if he does not recognize it, then he is lost. By this I mean, once, t... 
He won as far as he knows his team is in the playoffs. It is an asset to know that. He has a place. ... 
Curran's whore comes to visit us," Jarek said in accented English.
If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he ... 
When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares ... 
He didn’t know if that was really true or not, but he discovered something which was tremendously ... 
A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, ... 
If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it,... 
A great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child. 
If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus si... 
You lost your son, but reality he is alive, my father I lost him I know on 99% he is dead if this is... 
If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly pe... 
The Church has lost a great warrior and the country has lost a great patriot who will long be rememb... 
A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop... 
A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop... 
The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. He is the man who has lost everything except his ... 
No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumpe... 
When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man. 
A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others; a los... 
Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art. 
A Frenchman is self-assured because he regards himself personally both in mind and body as irresisti... 
Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action for no other reason ... 
What man of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, th... 
The man who is too isolated grows timid, abstracted, a little odd: He stumbles along amid realities ... 
The great man is he who has not lost his child's heart. 
And if Amsterdam was hell, and if hell was a memory, then he realized that perhaps there was some pu... 
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about ... 
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it... 
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it... 
If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine h... 
Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memor... 
He had lost Will Herondale. And he did not know if he could ever get him back. 
If he shrugs his shoulders, it is because he is no fool. He knows that once men are caught up in an ... 
A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral p... 
You saw my leg?"
When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse. 
You can get used to horror, he thought. When it has lost immediacy and is no longer pungent and has ... 
If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagi... 
When man fell from grace, he lost a kingdom, not a religion. He lost dominion over the earth; He did... 
He does not need to be an emperor, but a prince.
Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be ... 
Which European leader today would not relish the wonder-working powers of a Moses? Budget deficit? U... 
Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime... 
My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so... 
I challenge you, to go to any school and open 50 lunchboxes, and I guarantee you there will be one o... 
The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeli... 
I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior. 
I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that mo... 
You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It's hard enough to make a movie. If it w... 
In any film there's always a historical implication. 
At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat th... 
If the money's right, I'll do a film. 
I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be. 
A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fi... 
God knows, we don't want prayer. 
I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that w... 