"Learning a new skill can change hundreds of millions of cortical connections."

-- Michael Merzenich

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“don't think I should be in the business of making big pronouncements about where we are now, but I would say that dissatisfaction is as acute now as it was then. What's different, and what I think we can learn from these people, despite their abundant folly, is that we're not using the future as the organizing principle for our critique.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I honestly would tell anyone young to start looking at stories and learning story, because I think thatâ€™s the next step after people go, â€˜OK, Iâ€™ve had enough of that improvisation, Iâ€™ve had enough of those short comedy bits. Tell me a story, tell me a more complex story, something that lasts and maybe has a little more meaning to it.â€™ Donâ€™t ever look at whatâ€™s happening now; look at whatâ€™s coming next.”

Source : "Bob Odenkirk’s advice to young people: 'Get out of comedy, because it’s about to collapse'". Interview with Prachi Gupta, www.salon.com. November 11, 2014.
“Notorious sinners didnâ€™t kill Jesus. Religious people did.”
“I'm a junkie. I like drugs, I like the whole lifestyle, but it just didn't pay off.”

Source : "Drugstore Cowboy". Crime, Drama, 1989.
“In the face of so much pain, I remain an incurable optimist. I am fueled by the passion of the women I have been privileged to meet and work with, buoyed by their hope for peace, justice, and democracy.”
“But in almost every province of the Roman world, an army of fanatics, without authority and without discipline, invaded the peaceful inhabitants; and the ruin of the fairest structures of antiquity still displays the ravages of those barbarians who alone had time and inclination to execute such laborious destruction.”
“Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.”
“I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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