Primo Levi Quotes
To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn’t.
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I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.
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Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
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Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting.
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If we see too much of one person, even though we like that person, we start to kind of pull for other people.
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When my friends have a health concern, they call me. I've always been a vitamin taker. I also take digestive enzymes and antioxidants, and supplements that help with the thyroid and adrenals for my time-zone changes.
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My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions.
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I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
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I've always been intimidated by the technicalities of taking photos, especially with a film camera - not just a point and shoot.
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I'm not a revolutionary, and I'm not a warrior.
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Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself. I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette, but if I do, then within that, I can be creative.
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I stuck out more in an English public school than I would have had I marched in a May Day parade with the Red Army in Moscow or sashayed the Yves St. Laurent catwalk with supermodels or hunted seals with the Inuit or - well, you get the idea.
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I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'
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I have a terrible tendency to lick my fingers when I cook. So much so that I got a telling off from my pastry teacher years ago, who said it would hinder my prospects.
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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
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To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.
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'Certifiably Jonathan' contrives crises for its subject - a bid to get his paintings into MOMA, among others.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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But when I call for a hero, out comes my lazy old self; so I never know who I am, nor how many I am or will be. I'd love to be able to touch a bell and summon the real me, because if I really need myself, I mustn't disappear.
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Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
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Polytechnique is a school whose multidisciplinary, very high scientific level curriculum is invaluable.
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To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn’t.
