Ira Levin Quotes
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The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.
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I've written a few songs that have to do with being in a relationship, the bad and the good.
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But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.
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Sports is my passion.
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The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists.
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There used to be three networks, and now there are 40 million networks. There's a lot more competition out there, too. We would bring in 27 million people. Now, they're lucky if they have 17. I looked at the ratings, for the first time in 25 years, just to see, and there were 130 shows on. There used to be maybe 30.
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Sri Sathya Sai Baba as a preacher of the highest human values was an iconic figure for over five decades. He endeared himself to the people through various institutions, with headquarters at Prashanthi Nilayam, that promoted egalitarian values, education and public health.
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I don't want to produce a work of art that the public can sit and suck aesthetically…. I want to give them a blow in the small of the back, to scorch their indifference, to startle them out of their complacency.
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He knows me, he knows the doctors here, and we are the best hospital in this part of the world. It's true, I am serious.
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I'm a Santa Ana boy from 1940 to all my life. And Santa Ana was different only in the fact that Orange County was just small. Hell, I used to ride my motorcycle through the orange groves, and now it's tracts of homes.
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I want to be known as the mayor who happens to be Latino who made a difference. I ran to make a difference.
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I do feel like a Clevelander. Every time, when people ask me, I automatically say, 'My home is Cleveland.'
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Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.
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America is strongest when families take care of each other and walk with one another through need and loss.
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What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food.
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I know my strong points: I work hard, I have talent, I'm funny, and I'm a good person.
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I'm very much of the opinion that theatre is a collective art form, not just one person's vision.
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My experience of Chinese culture is indirect, through echoes. When I approach the cashier at my local Chinese supermarket, they switch to English before I've even said a word. They somehow know that I'm not quite Chinese enough.
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No traveler e'er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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Each traveler should know what he has to see, and what properly belongs to him, on a journey.
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For a traveler going from any place toward the north, that pole of the daily rotation gradually climbs higher, while the opposite pole drops down an equal amount.
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...the worry over media manipulation of photographs pales beside the threat that we will be exposed to an unedited, unvetted picture world where all images seem equally important and equally trivial.
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I've always been mad about cats.
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Anyone who needs more than one suitcase is a tourist, not a traveler.
