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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When you're an actress, there are only a few times you can really get paid. One of them is doing a sequel. They can't fake you or hire another actor to play you.
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The FCC has been hard at work doing what we can to help close the digital divide.
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My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.
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In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.
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You can't have someone with a pinkie out there at the U.N. or any other place.
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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.
