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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.
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Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
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People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget.
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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.
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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.
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I think most people read and re-read the things that they have liked. That's certainly true in my case. I re-read Pound a great deal, I re-read Williams, I re-read Thomas, I re-read the people whom I cam to love when I was at what you might call a formative stage.
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It's a fairly recent thing but I've become very fond of making drinks myself.
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I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end.
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Hold back your mind from pride, for pride comes only from ignorance. The man who does not know thinks that he is great, that he has done this or that great thing; the wise man knows that only God is great, that all good work is done by God alone.
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I didn't like England. I couldn't take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there, and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms weren't understood. I had to put a big lid on myself.
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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.
