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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Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender teens are bullied and ostracized in epidemic proportions. It's disgusting, and it must change.
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If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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I was a total fashion insider who became an outsider when I did bridal.
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Being an outsider doesn't necessarily indicate any sort of social failing. We do not view a tuba player as musically challenged if he cannot play the violin.
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I'm an outsider.
