"It's one thing to make lemonade out of lemons, another to proclaim that lemons are what you'd hope for in the first place."

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Source : Gary Marcus (2009). “Kluge: The Haphazard Evolution of the Human Mind”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Gary Marcus

#Firsts Quotes #Lemonade Quotes #One Thing Quotes

“Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale in comparison.”
“Your genetics load the gun. Your lifestyle pulls the trigger.”
“Who speaks of art speaks of poetry. There is not art without a poetic aim. There is a species of emotion particular to painting. There is an effect that results from a certain arrangement of colors, of lights, of shadows. It is this that one calls the music of painting”
“I'm proud of the scars in my soul. They remind me that I have an intense life.”
“The idea of any social obligation [...] just the idea of it embarasses my thoughts for a day, and sometimes it's since the day before that I worry, and don't sleep well, and the real affair, when it happens, is absolutely insignificant and justifies nothing; and the case repeats itself and I never learn to learn.”
“It's interesting that music in this country... we sort of sold something to America with The Beatles and they sold something back. And we've never been afraid to embrace American style rock 'n' roll and make it our own over here.”
“But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever.”
“Judah Friedlander, I'm ok with you being the world champion for a few years more. That's a hook with legs. But I think he should make one more hat, that says 'there's a limit to how funny words on a hat can be'. And then move to a chapeau.”

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