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I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains.
Jeff Hawkins
Design
Computers
Study
Mobile
Brains
Things
Two
The families of many athletes - incensed at the sports leagues and hoping to make games safer overall - are increasingly making the brains of players who die prematurely and suspiciously available for study. Some athletes are even making the bequest themselves.
Jeffrey Kluger
Sports
Increasingly
Athletes
Hoping
Some
Study
Leagues
Overall
Make
Safer
Making
Brains
Families
Die
Available
Themselves
Prematurely
Games
Who
Many
Even
Players
I've had the greatest respect for my work in this country by Americans. Critics have no brains.
Jerry Lewis
Work
Respect
Country
Critics
Had
Greatest
Brains
American
When you're talking about people like Shonda Rhimes, Vince Gilligan or Beau Willimon, you're talking to people who are notable and celebrities in their own right. People want to know how their brains work.
Jim Rash
Work
You
People
Own
Right People
About
Beau
Like
Know
Talking
How
Brains
Celebrities
Want
Notable
Who
Right
And I'm going to work as hard as I can... for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we'll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I'd like to think I'm going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year!
Jim Valvano
Work
Fight
Cancer
Year
Research
Think
Recipient
Back
Out
Hopefully
Some
Give
Like
Brains
Arthur
Cures
Going
Maybe
Want
Again
Breakthroughs
Next
Hard
Next Year
Here
Britain has still got rather fewer astronomers than many other countries - the French and the Italians, for example. Why is that? I don't think those countries have better brains.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Better
Example
Think
Other
Other Countries
Those
Rather
Countries
For Example
French
Got
Still
Italians
Brains
Than
Fewer
Many
Why
Britain
It was all about the ring. That's where you got your brains shook and the money took.
Joe Frazier
You
Money
Took
Ring
About
Got
Brains
Shook
Where
Your
It's important to me to play men who use their brains, not just brawn.
Joe Morton
Me
Men
Important
Brains
Just
Use
Who
Play
I think we find that it's most helpful when we have both of our brains applied to an issue.
Joe Russo
Think
Our
Find
Both
Most
Issue
Brains
Helpful
Applied
To the brains of our predecessors we owe all of our inheritance of civilization and culture.
John Eccles
Culture
Our
Civilization
Brains
Owe
Predecessors
Inheritance
'The cloud' is effectively an augmentation of our brains' memories.
John Gruber
Memories
Cloud
Our
Brains
Effectively
Neurologists say that our brains are programmed much more for stories than for abstract ideas. Tales with a little drama are remembered far longer than any slide crammed with analytics.
John P. Kotter
Drama
Our
Slide
Say
More
Remembered
Abstract
Longer
Tales
Ideas
Brains
Than
Any
Crammed
Stories
Little
Far
Much
Programmed
Taking someone else's language and fitting it into your own speech - you learn a lot about other people's brains, doing that.
Johnny Flynn
You
People
Language
Own
Other
Else
About
Someone
Taking
Learn
Doing
Lot
Brains
Fitting
Your
Speech
If you are in Brazil and you grew up in a right-wing dictatorship, you think Marxism is liberating. But if you grew up in Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union is controlling everything and killing people, then you think capitalism is liberating. Neither of those two things are true and it doesn't take a lot brains to understand this.
Jose Padilha
You
Capitalism
People
Dictatorship
Controlling
Brazil
Think
Everything
Liberating
Those
Right-Wing
Neither
Marxism
Take
True
Understand
Lot
Brains
Up
Soviet
Soviet Union
Grew
Then
Union
Czechoslovakia
Things
Two
Our culture constantly inundates us with new information, and yet our brains capture so little of it. I can spend half a dozen hours reading a book and then have only a foggy notion of what it was about.
Joshua Foer
Culture
Book
Half
Reading
Our
Spend
Foggy
Constantly
About
Only
New
Hours
New Information
Brains
Information
Little
Then
Us
Notion
Capture
Dozen
Evolution has programmed our brains to find two things particularly interesting, and therefore memorable: jokes and sex - and especially, it seems, jokes about sex.
Joshua Foer
Jokes
Sex
Our
Evolution
Find
Memorable
About
Seems
Particularly
Brains
Interesting
Therefore
Things
Two
Programmed
I eat 'The Walking Dead' like its made of brains. Can't even watch the show, I love the book so much.
Joss Whedon
Love
Book
Made
Eat
Like
Dead
Brains
Walking
Walking Dead
Much
Show
Even
Watch
People in L.A. don't have to brace themselves against the cold; they slack off permanently, and their brains turn to mush.
Juliana Hatfield
People
Cold
Permanently
Off
Brains
Against
Turn
Themselves
Slack
Mush
With our brains and our smarts and our altruistic capability, we can do a lot of good.
Julie Payette
Good
Our
Smarts
Altruistic
Lot
Brains
Capability
There needs to be more encouragement and support for women - at an impressionable age - to explore that choreographic side of their brains.
Justin Peck
Needs
Age
Women
Encouragement
Side
More
Support
Brains
Explore
I assume that we are all limited by our own brains and experiences and can only understand other people and other creatures through a kind of translation that brings them closer to us.
Karen Joy Fowler
People
Own
Translation
Assume
Other
Our
Kind
Only
Through
Understand
Limited
Brains
Closer
Experiences
Them
Us
Creatures
Brings
I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
Kate Seredy
Balance
Heart
Money
Listening
Long
Lose
Books
Run
Pretty
Long Run
Well
Make
Brains
Using
In my first year or so at the 'Post,' I began to write with some frequency on the least important issues - so-called light editorials. The titles themselves are revealing of just how light: 'On Being a Horse,' 'Brains and Beauty,' 'Mixed Drinks,' 'Lou Gehrig,' and 'Spotted Fever.'
Katharine Graham
Post
Light
First
Important
Beauty
Year
Some
Horse
Drinks
Write
Important Issues
Frequency
Revealing
How
Least
Issues
Mixed
Brains
Began
Fever
Just
Being
So-Called
Titles
Themselves
I don't believe I'm psychic, but if I can get people to focus on a specific thought, I can hack into brains and figure out what they're thinking.
Keith Barry
People
Psychic
Focus
Thought
Believe
Thinking
Out
Hack
Brains
Get
Figure
Specific
It's a lot harder to reach people's hearts than it is to reach people's brains.
Kevin Parker
People
Reach
Lot
Brains
Than
Hearts
Harder
What I loved about 'Summer' was that they were these four bright kids with a wonderful future. In a way, she was the one with the brains, and then you have the beauty queen and the jock and the introvert.
Kevin Williamson
Future
You
Queen
Wonderful
Beauty
Summer
Way
Kids
Jock
Introvert
About
She
Were
Brains
Loved
Then
Bright
Four
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