Jack Levine Quotes
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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I don't think about my fame very much.
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Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.
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I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.
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When I was young, 'Scarface' was my favorite film. Al Pacino is my hero. I want to work with him.
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I think the next president needs to lead on cultural issues and experience, particularly on foreign policy.
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I think my role, I want to have a presence both behind the scenes and in front of the camera. So I can't say on one particular thing, so I'll just name them all. I'll be the jack of all trades and hopefully decent at one of them.
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When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.
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I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me.
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Could it think, the heart would stop beating.
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I'll say anything to live.
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Yes, but if you take that crap and put a star in it, then you've got something.
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We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.
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You cannot have adoration without being criticized.
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My intention throughout has been to write, to create literature, and to be able to look people in the eye after I'd done it - the people I'd written about.
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I think extreme secrecy is a bad sign in all startups. Very few startups die because they tell you exactly how their technology works. On the long list of startup killers, that's pretty far down. Though on the list of entrepreneur fears, it's pretty high.
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Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.
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The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.
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Time and again our best and brightest have alerted society to looming problems, but our persistent pattern has been to ignore the warnings and suffer the consequences. The pathetic refrain of recent years --'Nobody saw this coming'--is always a self-serving lie.
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To be here today is just beyond my wildest dreams.
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It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person. Then I meet other writers and realize that they're not.
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Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.
