Jack Levine Quotes
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I wanted to study to be a dental hygienist, marry a rich dentist, and hang it up.
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One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It's an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.
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War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
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You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
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I'm thrilled I got to work with James Ponsoldt, who is going to make his mark on this industry.
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People read things into my commercials that don't even exist.
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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If you compromise and hire someone mediocre, you will always regret it.
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I cannot believe that God wants punishment to go on interminably any more than does a loving parent. The entire purpose of loving punishment is to teach, and it lasts only as long as is needed for the lesson. And the lesson is always love.
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His hips felt as if an army of mad acupuncturists had been driving hot needles into them.
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Once stock prices reach the point at which it is hard to value them by logical methodology, stocks will be bought as they were in the late 1920s not for investment but to be unloaded at a still higher price. The ensuing break could be disastrous because panic psychology cannot be summarily altered or reversed by easing money policies.
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I do receive a summary of daily news, but my work is mostly electronics and I.T.
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The narrator of a documentary often comes in at the last minute and takes some of the glory they don't deserve.
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When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body as an ear, so I can go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all sound. That talent or ability has lasted and served me until today.
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So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff to write.
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I like Australia, but every time I'm there, I feel like everybody's being sarcastic because everyone's so nice.
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The Olympic dream was born in 2010 during the qualifications to Vancouver. And when I was watching those Olympics from the sidelines, I felt that I wanted to have my Games. I understood that it wouldn't be easy to make them, especially now that in Russia there are a lot of strong girls.
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I learned that unemployment can be the great educator.
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The important thing with memorising a part is not to force it. Sometimes when you're rehearsing, you'll think it's not going in, but it is. On stage, you have to trust that the lines are there, because they are. The real challenge is to relax.
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I have had to come to terms with the fact that I am hooked on Twitter. Not good.
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Books are such a great way to spend time with your children, open lines of communication with your children, and just build that strong foundation.
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I dance. I don't really do anything else.
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Alternatively, suppose Qaddafi winds up hanging from a lamppost in his favorite party dress. If you're a Third World dictator, what lessons would you draw? Qaddafi was the thug who came in from the cold, the one who (in the wake of Saddam's fall) renounced his nuclear program and was supposedly rehabilitated in the chancelleries of the West. He was a strong partner in the war on terrorism, according to U.S. diplomats. And what did Washington do? They overthrew him anyway.
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I'm an outsider.
