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I know if I don't look after myself, I will be talking to you in a couple of years' time mumbling my words and slurring. It won't be because I am drunk: it will be the fighting, taking blow after blow to the brain. That scares me. I don't worry about being killed in the ring; it's losing my mind that I fear.

~Anthony Joshua

Topics: About After Am Because Being Blow Brain Couple Drunk Fear Fighting Know Look Losing Me Mind Myself Ring Scares Taking Talking Time Will Words Worry Years You I Am

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I wanted to be a writer, but at the time, I spent my days working a retail job, my nights sleeping in my childhood bedroom, and while I had written short stories here and there, I didn't know how to write good fiction anymore than I knew how to perform good brain surgery.

~Anthony Marra

Topics: Anymore Bedroom Brain Brain Surgery Childhood Days Fiction Good Had Here How Job Knew Know Nights Perform Retail Short Short Stories Sleeping Spent Stories Surgery Than Time Wanted While Working Write Writer Written

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Everything's always got to be character-based. We know we can't, if we're sitting in the editing room, watch the sequence for more than 20 seconds without a character having a point of view or moving the action forward; my brain just shuts down, or I start thinking about my laundry.

~Anthony Russo

Topics: About Action Always Brain Character Down Editing Editing Room Everything Forward Got Having Just Know Laundry More Moving Point Point Of View Room Seconds Sequence Sitting Start Than Thinking View Watch Without

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Unfortunately, my dad had a brain tumor, and my father-in-law passed away from leukemia, so I spend a lot of time on those two causes. I also tend to support military charities like Warrior Gateway, which helps guys transition from combat back into civilian life.

~Anthony Scaramucci

Topics: Also Away Back Brain Causes Charities Civilian Combat Dad Father-In-Law Gateway Guys Had Helps Leukemia Life Like Lot Military Passed Spend Support Tend Those Time Transition Tumor Two Unfortunately Warrior Which

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There's something happening in the world that didn't happen before. We are acting like one big brain.

~Antonio Banderas

Topics: Acting Before Big Brain Happen Happening Like Something World

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When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution - we can find evidence for it in nonhuman species - the brain processes it at a faster speed. Compassion for mental pain took many seconds longer.

~Antonio Damasio

Topics: Brain Compassion Deal Evidence Evolution Faster Find Know Like Longer Many Mental Old Pain Physical Physical Pain Processes Seconds Something Species Speed Took Very Which You

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Interestingly enough, not all feelings result from the body's reaction to external stimuli. Sometimes changes are purely simulated in the brain maps.

~Antonio Damasio

Topics: Body Brain Changes Enough External Feelings Interestingly Maps Purely Reaction Result Sometimes Stimuli

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Why do we have a brain in the first place? Not to write books, articles, or plays; not to do science or play music. Brains develop because they are an expedient way of managing life in a body.

~Antonio Damasio

Topics: Articles Because Body Books Brain Brains Develop Expedient First First Place Life Managing Music Place Play Play Music Plays Science Way Why Write

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There is no such thing as a disembodied mind. The mind is implanted in the brain, and the brain is implanted in the body.

~Antonio Damasio

Topics: Body Brain Mind Thing

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You still have only one self and one identity. However, self, identity and personality are not things, they are not objects, and they certainly are not rigid. Instead, they are biological processes built within the brain from numerous interactive components, step by step, over a period of time.

~Antonio Damasio

Topics: Biological Brain Built Certainly Components However Identity Instead Interactive Numerous Objects Only Over Period Personality Processes Rigid Self Step Still Things Time Within You

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