Bernard Levin Quotes
No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.
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Clark Gregg and I are around the same age. He has been an actor and is a writer. But with a first-time director, there is a way to talk about things they might not know. Because Clark was an actor, though, he knew more about the process than most first-time directors.
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When a single author uploading his own books to Amazon can earn more money than a large N.Y. publisher exploiting both print and e-rights, there's something amiss.
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I've always moved between media. Some ideas just work better in some media than others.
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The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.
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I never fully understand all the drama and machinations within the Eagles.
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I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading.
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There are a few players who don't like to think about the game.
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Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
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The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.
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'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.
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An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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I believe that if corporate America expects consumer confidence to be restored, they must first be honest with us.
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Every woman in her late 20s goes through a period where she just doesn't believe love is out there anymore, but it is. And I think the minute you stop looking for it is when it comes for you.
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Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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As an intern for Vice President Walter Mondale, I arrived the first day ready to write policy memos and change the world... but my assignment was doing an inventory of the furniture.
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When I read history, I [see] what typically happens to presidents and the other party during tumultuous times and how people react when the economy is collapsing and they're losing their homes, losing their pensions - it sort of tracks, what ended up happening, because some of that is human nature.
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No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.
