Philip Levine Quotes
I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.
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I hate it when guys wear really tight t-shirts. It's just so horrible, especially when you can see their bellies.
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.
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If you seek my help and guidance, I will immediately give it to you.
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I don't think the lifestyle that I have, the things going on in my life right now, you could put that on any 23-year-old kid. But, you know, I was raised right, and I'm prepared for whatever.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
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My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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Common man is always benefited by a rate cut.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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I believe very deeply in my soul that God paired me and my father purposely and that he knew that my father would give me the strength to be a person with disability that was proud, always held her head high, and was never, ever bitter.
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If you're going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war.
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Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.
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I think anything goes in fiction as long as it fits within the interior logic of the work itself and is presented in a disciplined manner.
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The source of all the energy is the sun. The big challenge is, how do you use all of that energy? Solar power has to fascinate you. There have been strides to get the costs down, and if this will work, you have to get costs down so it is competitive with fossil fuels.
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I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.
