Brain Quotes - Page 30

• 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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• Brain, v. [as in "to brain"]: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to dispel a source of error in an opponent.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Errors, Opponents, Source

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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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• The first time I ever saw Lydia Lunch perform it was a religious experience. Not only is she intelligent and beautiful but she actually understands how "my" brain works. This almost rivals my first concert- Cindy Lauper when I was 12. She was so fascinating to me at the time. She made me want to dye my hair pink and start a band. (SO I naturally did)... All Cure records have had a great effect on me musically also.

  Jessicka

  Beautiful, Religious, Intelligent

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• There is not one kind of food for all men. You must and you will feed those faculties which you exercise. The laborer whose body is weary does not require the same food with the scholar whose brain is weary.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Food, Exercise, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.132, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Bear with my weakness. My old brain is troubled.
  Be not disturbed with my infirmity.

  William Shakespeare

  Age, Weakness, Bears

  William Shakespeare (1998). “The Tempest”, p.129, Penguin

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• Human beings only use ten percent of their brains. Ten percent! Can you imagine how much we could accomplish if we used the other sixty percent?

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Use, Imagine, Accomplish

  "Ellen DeGeneres: The Beginning". www.imdb.com. 2000.

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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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• Marriage and fatherhood heighten the disillusion that we all think we are born handy. We confidently believe that we can fix things around the house, as if it's part of the collective brain that was further enhanced by eighth-grade shop class.

  Bob Newhart

  Believe, Thinking, Class

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• 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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• I got so good at writing to a budget, my brain was restricting myself. I'd write, "It's a stormy night." Then I'd cross out stormy. I'd write: "It's a calm night." Then I'd cross out night. It's noon. Because you know how much night costs. You know how much rain costs. Nothing comes free in movies.

  Albert Brooks

  Rain, Writing, Night

  "Albert Brooks: What I've Learned". Esquire, "The Meaning of Life" issue, www.esquire.com. January 2011.

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• You can see that the care he took defiling the beauty he had forced in them was as precise and clean as his good hands which at night had developed the negatives, floating the sheets in the correct acids and watching the faces and breasts and pubic triangles and sofas emerge. The making and destroying coming from the same source, same lust, same surgery his brain was capable of. (On New Orleans photographer E. J. Bellocq)

  Michael Ondaatje

  Night, New Orleans, Hands

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “Coming Through Slaughter”, p.45, A&C Black

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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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• My brain is very fantastical. If I ever actually recorded myself, I could probably win a Grammy for sex talk. Being on the road while in relationships, you need to learn to pleasure one another.

  Dane Cook

  Sex, Winning, Needs

  "Kiss The Cook". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. July 9, 2007.

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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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• Our need to knock celebrities is...Twisted: it's deep in the mid-brain below the survival instinct. That lust to see a downfall. It's animalistic.

  Peaches Geldof

  Lust, Survival, Needs

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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 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 was never very good at math and science, to be honest, so it's fun to play a character that is so scientific and mathematical, and whose brain functions at such a high pace. The biggest difference is that Maura is very linear in her thinking and very logical. I'm not quite like that. I'm much more laid back and not quite so type A. That's the big difference.

  Sasha Alexander

  Fun, Character, Math

  Source: collider.com

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• Addiction is a brain disease. This is not a moral failing. This is not about bad people who are choosing to continue to use drugs because they lack willpower.

  Michael Botticelli

  People, Addiction, Drug

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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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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• 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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• I went to Seattle as just another geek in the food chain, thinking, "Well, in my own puny little way, I'd rather be a part of history than just sit and watch it on TV." So, the fact that so many people are starting to ask the right questions and rack their brains for solutions does give me hope.

  Jello Biafra

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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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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