"Failure's still something I can say I've achieved"

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Source : Song: I've Got What It Takes, 2013

Alex Day

“The brain is a monstrous, beautiful mess. Its billions of nerve cells - called neurons - lie in a tangled web that displays cognitive powers far exceeding any of the silicon machines we have built to mimic it.”
“How much of human life is lost in waiting.”
“If we finished our work, the teacher would say, 'Now don't read ahead.' But sometimes I hid the book I was reading behind my geography book and did read ahead. You can hide a lot behind a geography book.”
“There is no upper limit to what individuals are capable of doing with their minds. There is no age limit that bars them from beginning. There is no obstacle that cannot be overcome if they persist and believe.”
“Enlightenment is scary. Sometimes things look better in the dark.”
“Music education is very important. I think that for me growing up, I was disciplined very hard at home.”
“We can't possibly fight all the terrorists in all the countries where they exist because we don't have the money or manpower to do so.”
“I don't watch a huge amount of telly. I read a lot. I'm reading at the moment 'Freedom,' by Jonathan Franzen, a great big brick of a book, and I'm loving it.”

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