Cerebral Quotes - Page 5

• What I want is an art of equilibrium, of purity and tranquility, free from unsettling or disturbing subjects, so that all those who work with their brains, and this includes business men as well as artists and writers, will look on it as something soothing, a kind of cerebral sedative as relaxing in its way as a comfortable armchair.

  Henri

  Art, Men, Brain

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• The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic. We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message. The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.

  John Berger

  Song, Order, Essence

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• I want a performance style that's more cerebral and emotional than physical. I want to be a creative artist, not a whirling dervish.

  Scott Weiland

  Artist, Emotional, Creative

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• Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.

  Bernard Berenson

  Believe, Mind, Patient

  Quoted by Umberto Morra in Conversations with Berenson 8 February (1931)

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• I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Teenager, Parent, Influence

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• Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.

  Iain Banks

  Reading, Animal, Smell

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• I find a difference in British spy fiction and American spy fiction. In the American version, it's more militaristic, partly because the CIA has more of the military makeup. Whereas MI6 is more of a cerebral, intelligence-based, relationship-based service, i.e., all they do is recruit people to get information out of them.

  Charles Cumming

  Military, Makeup, Differences

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• I like to try to give something back to the community because I feel fortunate for how I was raised and how my life turned out. Each year, with the help of my brother, Grant, we run a charity golf tournament to raise money for the Ontario Federation for Cerebral Palsy.

  Curtis Joseph

  Running, Brother, Golf

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• I'm more cerebral than I want to be.

  Chris Pine

  Want

  "Chris Pine says he'll be 'like George Clooney' when it comes to settling down" by Kat Rosenfield, www.mtv.com. October 19, 2010.

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• What I love about L.A. and Washington, D.C. is that they're almost the opposite of each other. L.A. is a very creative space while D.C. is a very cerebral space. So, they're the ying and the yang in my world. I like them both for their own reasons.

  Kal Penn

  Opposites, Creative Space, Yang

  "Kal Penn–From Hollywood to the White House and back to the big screen". Interview with Kam Williams, www.philasun.com. November 6, 2011.

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• What distinguishes our species is thought. The cerebral cortex is in a way a liberation. We need no longer be trapped in the genetically inherited behavior patterns of lizards and baboons: territoriality and aggression and dominance hierarchies. We are each of us largely responsible for what gets put in to our brains. For what as adults we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain we can change ourselves. Think of the possibilities.

  Carl Sagan

  Caring, Thinking, Wind

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". TV Series (Episode 11: The Persistence of Memory), 1990.

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• The last few years I've had to force myself to go out and be more involved the world because I can get a bit more cerebral and escape into characters and the world of characters. But now I guess I escape into stories about 'Wilfred.

  Jason Gann

  Character, Years, Stories

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

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• Methamphetamine is so Flowers for Algernon: All that super-human cerebral ability fades to limited physical activities like stapling carpet scraps to the wall or masturbation antics worthy of The Guinness Book of World Records.

  Clint Catalyst

  Wall, Flower, Book

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• If you like your soccer cerebral, and the triumph ultimately to be wrung out of staying power, Milan was the place to be. If you love the uncertainty of teams that cannot defend yet have the courage to attack, attack, attack, then Seville was heaven... The common denominator between the victories of Arsenal and Fenerbache? The strength of mind, the courage to dare in another team's domain, the inner belief that is as much a part of sporting success as the skill a fellow may be born with.

  Robert Hughes

  Soccer, Football, Team

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• Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it’s more of a cerebral ascent.

  Krista Tippett

  Tolerance, Ascent, Virtue

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• Rick Perry is the perfect candidate for those who thought George W. Bush was just too dang cerebral. And Adios, Mofo is the perfect guide to his record, his rhetoric and his remarkable hair. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll vote.

  Paul Begala

  Hair, Perfect, Laughing

  "MSNBC Live Brings On 'Adios Mofo' Author to Slam Rick Perry". www.newsbusters.org. June 5, 2015.

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• There is a place where cerebral an corporeal meet: they call it rowing

  Barry S. Strauss

  Rowing

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• I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics.

  Chris Patten

  Cutting, Thinking, Vulgarity Is

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• What's hard to do is describe why you like something. Because ultimately, the reason things move people is very amorphous. You can be cerebral about things you hate, but most of the things you like tend to be very emotive.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Hate, Moving, People

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2006.

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• When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.

  Henri Bergson

  House, Perception, Body

  Henri Bergson (2012). “Matter and Memory”, p.150, Courier Corporation

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• We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

  Frederick Tilney

  Inspirational, Power, Use

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• You're told that you're in your head too much, a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers.

  Susan Cain

  People, Phrases, Diners

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.7, Broadway Books

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• Even in cerebral roles that are seemingly intelligent and nothing else, I think it's so important to wrap your characterization in a physical form as well.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Intelligent, Thinking, Important

  "Benedict Cumberbatch - "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug". Interview with Kam Williams, www.eurweb.com. December, 2013.

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• Even the cerebral characters I play seem to have physical quirks. They're all "physically inhabited," for lack off a better expression. For instance, Sherlock Holmes has very particular physical gestures which are drawn out in such detail.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Character, Expression, Play

  "“The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” Interview with Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. December 10, 2013.

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• One of the biggest breaks we had actually, one of the biggest, the hardest I laughed on the movie [The Hangover] was the baby was just doing ridiculous things and making hilarious faces. But I'm sitting there and I'm supposed to be having this exchange with Zach [ Galifianakis] and the baby is like staring at me with these huge eyes and acting, and just making the most cerebral faces, and I could not keep it together.

  Ed Helms

  Baby, Hangover, Eye

  Source: movies.about.com

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