Bernard Levin Quotes
Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.
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My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?
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I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.
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On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.
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The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.
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To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.
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If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.
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One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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I was writing a lot even as a kid.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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I'm a better mother if I'm also doing my work. Some women find a lot more satisfaction from doing the hardest job, which is being a mom. But I like my day job, so I juggle a lot.
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I've been told I'm a player, but people still don't always return my calls.
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Long view of history shows evil triumphing more often than we'd like to admit. That's just how it is. I don't despair too much about dying, either. It's just a fact of being human.
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That was the biggest thrill, going over to these guy's houses and having them want me to practice with them and they would show me a lot of stuff, which was really advanced stuff to me at my age.
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I've gotten work based on how I look, and I've not gotten work based on how I look. It's all good.
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Usually when I drank too much, I could guess why I did so, the objective being to murder a state of consciousness that I didn't have the courage to sustain--a fear of heights, which sometimes during the carnival of the 1960s accompanied my attempts to transform the bourgeois journalist into an avant-garde novelist. The stepped-up ambition was a commonplace among the would-be William Faulkners of my generation; nearly always it resulted in commercial failure and literary embarrassment.
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A man carries out suggestions the more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.
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When you watch the films that I'm inspired by - from the '60s and '70s - it's not about the special effects: it's about the story; it's about characters and relationships.
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Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.
