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I'm more cerebral than I want to be. -- Chris Pine
He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense. -- Rita Coolidge
Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it's more of a cerebral ascent. -- Krista Tippett
I completely admire my mother for raising a child with cerebral palsy at home. -- Natalia Vodianova
Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so. -- Iain Banks
My vanity is not remotely physical, it is cerebral. I suppose feeling self-conscious might be a form of vanity, though. -- Richard Griffiths
I want a performance style that's more cerebral and emotional than physical. I want to be a creative artist, not a whirling dervish. -- Scott Weiland
Music can make the cerebral accessible, the subconscious hummable. It communicates our shared needs and desires as sentient beings better than any other medium. -- Nellie McKay
Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play. -- Oscar Peterson
When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body. -- Bill Lee
'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' is the best movie for a guy like me. A cerebral adventure. A moving story. A bunch of little green men. -- Tom DeLonge
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
The thing about Sondheim is that it does get very cerebral. You do need a faculty with words and a love for the lyrics to not just pull it off, but to have an appreciation for it. -- Lea Salonga
Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics. You 'take in' a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying. -- Charles Krauthammer
It's a writer's or director's role to be cerebral, whereas for an actor it should be a visceral, gut thing. When the action starts, it's best to turn the brain off and let it become an instinctual thing. -- Natalie Dormer
I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old. -- Laura San Giacomo
When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves. -- Henri Bergson
For all of the woes besetting our business, I believe with all my heart that newspapers - whether they are distributed to your doorstep, your laptop, your iPhone or a chip implanted in your cerebral cortex - will be around for a long time. -- Bill Keller
Oh, my goodness, when you're a mother and you just give birth to a child with spina bifida and - or Down's Syndrome or cerebral palsy, there's a bit of a shock you're going to have to go through, a bit of an adjustment curve. -- Joni Eareckson Tada
I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can't possibly speak for a diverse group of people. I don't know what it's like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy. -- Aimee Mullins
The Blue Brain project expects to have a full human-scale simulation of the cerebral cortex by 2018. I think that's a little optimistic, actually, but I do make the case that by 2029 we will have very detailed models and simulations of all the different brain regions. -- Ray Kurzweil
I like to try to give something back to the community because I feel fortunate for how I was raised and how my life turned out. Each year, with the help of my brother, Grant, we run a charity golf tournament to raise money for the Ontario Federation for Cerebral Palsy. -- Curtis Joseph
What I love about L.A. and Washington, D.C. is that they're almost the opposite of each other. L.A. is a very creative space while D.C. is a very cerebral space. So, they're the ying and the yang in my world. I like them both for their own reasons. -- Kal Penn
I have my father's lopsided mouth. When I smile, my lips slope to one side. My doctor sister calls it my cerebral palsy mouth. I am very much a daddy's girl, and even though I would rather my smile wasn't crooked, there is something moving for me about having a mouth exactly like my father's. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I don't know what it's like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy. I don't speak for such huge and diverse groups. What I've tried to do, what I've been fortunate to do, is to live my live and create my life as I've wanted to create it. -- Aimee Mullins
I like the cerebral process. -- Charlaine Harris
Chess is a natural cerebral high. -- Walter Browne
Civilization is a product of the cerebral cortex. -- Carl Sagan
I'm very cerebral. I like to think things through. -- Liz Phair
We're more cerebral than physical.""Your cerebrum can't have an orgasm. -- Kresley Cole
There is a place where cerebral an corporeal meet: they call it rowing -- Barry S. Strauss
The more cerebral, slightly darker comedy stuff is where I love to live. -- Reid Scott
Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; itâ??s more of a cerebral ascent. -- Krista Tippett
I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music. -- Esa-Pekka Salonen
I found it hard to make friends in school, because I was a cerebral person. -- Lana Del Rey
Often I play, especially on television, a lot of smart lawyer people and cerebral types. -- Laila Robins
Along with our many human propensities, we evolved a huge cerebral cortex with which we make decisions. -- Helen Fisher
My music is always called "cerebral." It is a way of saying I'm Asian, and therefore everything I do is brainy. -- Vijay Iyer
Working from photos makes you a little more analytical, a little more cerebral, because you're less connected to the intensity of life. -- George L. Carlson
Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine. -- Bernard Berenson
You know the hardest thing about having cerebral palsy and being a woman? It's plucking your eyebrows. That's how I originally got pierced ears. -- Geri Jewell
MUSIC. Tunneling right down into your CORE and SOULTIME. Hep, sloppy, SEXY and cerebral. Chancy and hip-swinging like ELVIS and your first teenage KISS. -- Carew Papritz
You know how some people have gay-dar? I have fat-dar. I can automatically tell if you're fat or not. And I also have cerebral-palsy-dar. -- Zach Galifianakis
We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining. -- Frederick Tilney
We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal. -- C. S. Lewis
Even in cerebral roles that are seemingly intelligent and nothing else, I think it's so important to wrap your characterization in a physical form as well. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
Close Encounters of the Third Kind' is the best movie for a guy like me. A cerebral adventure. A moving story. A bunch of little green men. -- Tom DeLonge
A thriller must be thrilling. A mystery may or may not be a thriller depending on how much breathless emotion it has, as opposed to cerebral calculation. -- David Morrell
The kind of acting that's wholly literary or cerebral is wrong. It's useless for me to have actors so much in their heads that they can't be organic. -- Mike Leigh
For a brief moment, I considered deconstructing the song and going down a cerebral road, but then I realized it would kill what is most powerful about it. -- Annie E. Clark
You're told that you're in your head too much, a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers. -- Susan Cain
I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics. -- Chris Patten
Humans. Violent but peace-loving. Passionate but cerebral. Humane but cruel. Impulsive but calculating. Generous but selfish. And yet, somehow I knew that they represented the best hope of the galaxy. -- Katherine Applegate
Everybody goes into different dimensional planes. You do it every night when you dream. You are journeying into other dimensional planes. Dreams are not just functions of the cerebral cortex. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I like living, breathing better than working... Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral. It's a kind of constant euphoria. -- Marcel Duchamp
For me, writing is inseparable from thinking. I could say the entire undertaking is a vast cerebral construct against my demons. It's the thing that I love. It's my identity. -- Kathryn Harrison
I'm simply saying that our deepest thoughts, desires and preoccupations manifest themselves in art, whether we intend them to or not. That's what art is for; it's not cerebral, it's emotional. -- Simon Pegg
I was coming from a very cerebral, dark, difficult, layered play by Christopher Hampton and doing an action movie in Hollywood (Die Hard) with explosions, and I was holding a gun. -- Alan Rickman
Too many so-called historians are really 'hysterians'; their thinking is more visceral than cerebral. When their duties as citizens clash with their responsibilities as scholars, Clio frequently takes a back seat. -- Thomas A. Bailey
I'm pretty cerebral, so I can occasionally rationalize emotional pain away, but when I can't, that's when I start to feel the fire inside take over and somehow manage to power through. -- Nathan Parsons
I don't think every joke has to be so dadgum cerebral. I mix it up really good, because that's the kind of humor I like. I like the goofy one-liner type stuff. -- Larry the Cable Guy
I've always thought of myself as an organic writer, rather than a cerebral one. I feel my way along as I go, hoping I'll get to the place I intend to reach. -- Len Wein
I have a profound passion for the act of flying. It's very freeing, with an intense physicality, but it also gives an Olympian, god's-eye view, which fuels a larger cerebral and structural analysis. -- Michael Light
Studies by Andrew Newberg and others have shown that long-term practice of meditation produces significant alterations in cerebral blood flow in parts of the brain related to attention, emotion, and some autonomic functions. -- Oliver Sacks
Readings are more like weaving a tapestry. Possibly people are getting a cathartic release - but music is physical. Music pummels you. It's got a beat; it's loud. Whereas this is more cerebral. -- John Darnielle
The scientific mind is atrophied, and suffers under inherited cerebral weakness, when it comes in contact with the eternal woman--Astarte, Isis, Demeter, Aphrodite, and the last and greatest deity of all, the Virgin. -- Henry Adams
About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell... I defy anybody to read the first page and not keep going to the last. -- Lev Grossman
It is strongly suspected that a NEWTON or SHAKESPEARE excels other mortals only by a more ample development of the anterior cerebral lobes, by having an extra inch of brain in the right place. -- Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet
Methamphetamine is so Flowers for Algernon: All that super-human cerebral ability fades to limited physical activities like stapling carpet scraps to the wall or masturbation antics worthy of The Guinness Book of World Records. -- Clint Catalyst
There's something about being cerebral, intellectual, and yet emotionally repressed [in being villain]. If you think someone's doing this [bad] stuff and they're in complete control, that's more scary than if they're out of control. -- Tom Hooper
While wine may be only a drink, it is also one of the most complex sensory pleasures we enjoy. It is as cerebral as it is sensual, and it requires a lifetime to appreciate it. -- Natalie MacLean
I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because of its unique capacity to organize or reorganize cerebral function when it has been damaged. -- Oliver Sacks
I'm a very cerebral person and I like to do my homework and break it down. I like to feel like I did my due diligence. It's a confidence factor for me, as an actor. -- Emmanuelle Chriqui
Consciousness is cerebral celebrity--nothing more and nothing less. Those contents are conscious that persevere, that monopolize resources long enough to achieve certain typical and "symptomatic" effects--on memory, on the control of behavior and so forth. -- Daniel Dennett

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