Philip Levine Quotes

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

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• People should focus on my foundation, my projects, and everything positive and important that I am doing in Latin America and the around the world.

  

  Maluma
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• I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
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• People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
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• Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.

  

  Karen Kain
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• If you're having a down time at school and people are bullying you, they don't know you. They don't have the right to have an opinion on you.

  

  Maisie Williams
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• What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.

  

  Harrison Ford
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• Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?

  

  Verne Troyer
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• I was scared, because I knew that in the political arena, you have to satisfy so many different types of people at once, and I wasn't sure that I could speak for everybody and be politically correct.

  

  Camryn Manheim
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• I don't read a lot of magazines, but when I'm traveling, I'll pick up a copy of 'Vanity Fair' to read on the plane - it's like a full meal! The articles are so good, especially the crime stories. Browsing the Web is more like snacking - but I live on snacks.

  

  Sam Trammell
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• I get criticized for taking roles in films like 'Ghost Rider 2', but if you look at my resume, dude, I've mixed it up as much as I can.

  

  Idris Elba
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• As governor, I will always be willing to work with people who have ideas to offer and are ready to roll up their sleeves. That kind of teamwork will build a New Hampshire that will lead the nation and compete with the world. Together, we will help our businesses grow and build a stronger economy on a vision of innovation and growth.

  

  Maggie Hassan
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• To be aware of others' accomplishments and the indebtedness we have to so many people is to appreciate and begin to respect all members of the human family.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
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• I love figuring out a stranger, sitting down and learning about their loves and struggles and everything. People are my jam.

  

  Cara Delevingne
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• I dated all these girls and ended up not liking them and thought to myself, 'What was it that all of them had in common?' They had too much time on their hands. Even though they were pretty, they lacked something. A woman could be less attractive but with ambition and drive, that's the most beautiful thing.

  

  Wale
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• People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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• People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget.

  

  Ted Stevens
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• I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
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• I've had writing sessions with people, but I've never had one where you're just there, and you start making a song, and then it's too good to be true that something really cool will come out of this.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
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• I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business towards Japan. And yet I remember how the car workers lived in the neighborhood that I grew up in. My father was a car salesman, and I remember how we lived. I remember how modestly we lived.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• I remember playing John Wayne Gacy, serial killer, very sick, neurotic, screwed-up guy. You know what? There's a part of me there, too, and you explore that.

  

  Brian Dennehy
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• Embryonic stem cell research will prolong life, improve life and give hope for life to millions of people.

  

  Jim Ramstad
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• My mother and father have brought us up to respect everyone with the same equal love and honor them, and you're supposed to honor your profession.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
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• There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

  

  Philip Levine
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