Marne Levine Quotes
Through an image, people are able to communicate how they're feeling, making even the most invisible struggles more visible to friends and family.
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I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.
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Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
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When I was in high school, I started getting into Japanese wrestling. For me to watch those matches, I had to order VHS tapes through catalogues, and these tapes were, like, $20 each.
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
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I'm the girl who will show up in jeans no matter what - but the jeans can get fancier and fancier.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.
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Each year I host a leadership summit in my district, and my biggest advice to young people is get experience. Get your foot in the door.
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I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life.
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I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.
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English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.
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There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.
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Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack in 'Titanic' was my childhood crush!
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I am honored that they would include me in the Cabinet as a member and contributor.
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I am actually one of those who took President Obama at his word when he first ran - that he would get us out of ill-advised wars, that he would do something about health care costs, and that he would protect civil liberties. Like many Americans, I was disappointed.
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Through an image, people are able to communicate how they're feeling, making even the most invisible struggles more visible to friends and family.
