"Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man."
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"The world is beset by many problems, but in my opinion, this hijacking of our brain's reward centers by electronic media is potentially one of the most destructive."
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"It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all."
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"The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body."
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"Those who are clever, who have a brain, never understand anything."
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"My brain? It's my second favorite organ!"
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"I trust in my inspiration, really, and that's difficult because sometimes you would rather be technical. And once you empty your mind, empty your brain, it's really incredible. I'm very caring about things that dash into my brain, and I make sure I don't just clog it."
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"I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms."
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"I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts. As a matter of fact, it is not male parts, but male brains that I prefer."
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"One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead."
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"If little else, the brain is an educational toy."
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"Your brain is not designed to make you happy. That's your job!"
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"I had a Tourette's period. And obsessive compulsive disorder. Things would get in my brain that I couldn't get out of my brain."
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"A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain."
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"By asking the question How can I afford it? your brain is put to work."
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"In the stutter-flashes of light, the clouds look like huge transparent brains filled with bad thoughts."
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"Rack your brains, that should only take a couple of seconds."
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"Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain."
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"I sat and thought for four (delayed train) hours, and all the details bubbled up in my brain, and this scrawny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who didn't know he was a wizard became more and more real to me."
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"The answer is that we are not helpless in the face of our first impressions. They may bubble up from the unconscious - from behind a locked door inside of our brain - but just because something is outside of awareness doesn't mean it's outside of control."
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