Brain Quotes - Page 22

• My Gran said put a thimble on your finger and it helps you in case you slip with the needle and it goes up, into the brain, and death.

  Eddie Izzard

  Helping, Said, Cases

  "Eddie Izzard: Definite Article". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• With all its technical sophistication, the photographic camera remains a coarse device compared to the human hand and brain.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Hands, Cameras, Coarse

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• We manipulate nature as if we were stuffing an Alsatian goose. We create new forms of energy; we make new elements; we kill crops; we wash brains. I can hear them in the dark sharpening their lasers.

  Erwin Chargaff

  Dark, Lasers, Energy

  Erwin Chargaff (1977). “Voices in the labyrinth: nature, man, and science”, Harper San Francisco

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• So I think if you're happy with your brain, you're powerful.

  Albert Brooks

  Powerful, Thinking, Ifs

  "Albert Brooks: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 2011.

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• Prescription drugs and heroin act in very similar ways on the brain. And, unfortunately, heroin, because of its widespread availability is a lot cheaper.

  Michael Botticelli

  Availability, Drug, Way

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Some people have constipation of the brain but their mouth has the runs.

  Dane Cook

  Running, People, Mouths

  FaceBook post by Dane Cook from Sep 03, 2014

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• But men and women, getting along, it's a joke. We have completely different brains, it's a completely different thing.

  Christina Applegate

  Men, Different, Jokes

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• My eye, my brain, are images, parts of my body. How could my brain contain images since it is one image among others?

  Gilles Deleuze

  Eye, Body

  Gilles Deleuze (2013). “Cinema I: The Movement-Image”, p.66, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics. I'm not one of those people who can just spout off numbers for things, if numbers are thrown at me.

  Brit Marling

  Numbers, People, Mathematics

  Source: collider.com

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• I read as much as I could, but really just spoke to Chris Chibnall and asked all the pertinent questions. That made me feel like we weren't going to do an off-the-peg Camelot, which has been touched upon in many films and TV series before. I really just picked his brain and, in doing so, I got fired up by tackling Merlin in a fresher angle.

  Joseph Fiennes

  Pertinent Questions, Tvs, Film

  "Joseph Fiennes, Tamsin Egerton & Exec. Producer Chris Chibnall Interview CAMELOT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 1, 2011.

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• I had this fantasy of becoming a neurosurgeon. You know, the normal Jewish boy fantasy, but I wanted to be a neurosurgeon for some reason. So I started in this unpleasant way. I was an assistant to the coroner, opening up corpses, taking the innards out, opening skulls, taking the brains out.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Boys, Opening Up, Skulls

  "Joseph Brodsky's Art of Darkness". www.washingtonpost.com. October 23, 1987.

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• I like acting too much and it's too, I'm just too busy doing that and I'm too hungry for it, to get behind the camera. I mean, unless I could act in it, too. I don't think I've got the right brain. I'm too disorganized.

  Rachel Weisz

  Mean, Thinking, Acting

  Source: collider.com

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• I didn't want to be around anybody because it was just too much for my brain. But, as an actress, you hope you get those meaty roles that push you into the extremities of that psychology. I like doing independent films because there's more room for you to be creative, and the director allowed me to just go wherever I needed to go. It was emotional. I had to cry a lot.

  Tinsel Korey

  Independent, Emotional, Creative

  Source: collider.com

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• Photography works upon the human eye: what is seen is reflected in the brain without the need for complicated thought. In this way the bourgeoisie takes advantage of the mental indolence of the masses and does good business as well.

  Willi Munzenberg

  Photography, Eye, Bourgeoisie

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• Brain damage and stupidity are very different things, but can have similar effects on the wearer.

  Dov Davidoff

  Stupidity, Different, Damage

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• We all have brains and we're all really smart people, but the underlying reality is that we're really just animals and sometimes animal instinct takes over your capability to really think things through.

  Cristian Machado

  Smart, Animal, Reality

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't.

  Branford Marsalis

  Song, Sometimes, Quartets

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• I would love to say there was some contemporary artist who's work really got me thinking, but lately I have just been trying to sort out 20 years of garbage TV culture that is filling my brain.

  Cory Arcangel

  Artist, Thinking, Years

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• The hallmark of addiction is that it changes your brain chemistry. It actually affects that part of your brain that's responsible for judgment.

  Michael Botticelli

  Addiction, Chemistry, Judgment

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• My mom was a manic depressive schizophrenic who, after a year in prison, went home and shot herself. My sister, Kirsten, an amazing poet, who was raised by this woman, and was dating a guy who broke up with her for the fourth time in three weeks. And one day, she came to his house, got a gun, and blew her brains out all over his headboard. I just went through a divorce, five years in court and cost me $2 million dollars. If anyone, by law, should be forced to take antidepressants it's me... But instead, I choose to be an antidepressant. And you can take me with alcohol.

  Christopher Titus

  Mom, Home, Divorce

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Despite a primitive brain, the octopus possesses an intricate system that helps it decide which tentacle to masturbate with.

  Dana Gould

  Octopus, Helping, Tentacles

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• A good sherris-sack hath a twofold operation in it. It
  ascends me into the brain,... makes it apprehensive, quick,
  forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes.

  William Shakespeare

  Drinking, Wine, Imagination

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 4, sc. 3, l. [103]

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• Long ago you may have given up control of your brain and set it on autopilot either because it just felt like too much work. And it is work! But for me, this work was well worth it for the prospect of not waking up sad every day.

  Chris Hardwick

  Long Ago, Wake Up, May

  Chris Hardwick (2011). “The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life)”, p.81, Penguin

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• It's a constant battle between what your heart tells you, and what your brain tells you.

  Dat Phan

  Heart, Battle, Constant

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• For years and years and years... people showed me pictures that had been left unclaimed at big photo-finishers. Sometimes I think it changed my personality, sometimes I wonder if it didn't damage my brain.

  Michael Lesy

  Thinking, Years, People

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