Iain McGilchrist Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world. – Iain McGilchrist Cultures Quotes Destruction Quotes Developing Quotes Globalisation Quotes Illness Quotes Led Quotes Local Quotes Mental Quotes Prevalence Quotes Rise Quotes Urbanisation Quotes The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster’s International Dictionary. It is not rational to assume, without evidence, that rationality can disclose everything about the world, just because it can disclose some things. Our intuition in favour of rationality, where we are inclined to use it, is just that – an intuition. Reason is founded in intuition and ends in intuition, like a pair of massive bookends.
Joshua Kimmich The only important thing is your performance. If you perform well, then you get the respect of your team-mates. – Joshua Kimmich
Damien Chazelle I didn’t have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn’t really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him. It was his face. It was whether or not he’d approve of my playing. – Damien Chazelle
Fiona Bruce I had done debate programmes before and quite often you go into them thinking: ‘I might need to build some energy in the room.’ ‘On Question Time,’ the reverse is true. A lot of the time, I am just trying to not have it turn into a slanging match. – Fiona Bruce
John Cameron Mitchell I think I was scared of the drag thing, as a lot of gay boys are. It’s sort of knocked out of you in junior high. I wouldn’t find guys who were very feminine attractive. Then, doing ‘Hedwig,’ I got to be man and woman, really butch and really femme at the same time, and I realized, this is kind of the ideal. – John Cameron Mitchell
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