Philip Levine Quotes
For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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You want your coach's blessing.
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You like the style of the people you like because it reflects something inside them.
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If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.
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We are what we believe we are.
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There's no silver bullet when it comes to helping all children achieve. Great public schools are our best shot.
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A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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What do young, budding artists do, but go to law school? I had creative periods now and again, but it wasn't until I was practicing law that I really needed a creative outlet. I'd come home from long days at the office and draw, paint, and sculpt from clay, wire - even candy.
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Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.
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I love what TLC did with the baggy pants. I love a lot of throwbacks.
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My philosophy is always to fulfill contracts.
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If I've been indulging in rich foods, a cleanse is a wonderful way to hit the reset button.
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All I had to do was do it.
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Rome is a very loony city in every respect. One needs but spend an hour or two there to realize that Fellini makes documentaries.
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Intelligence is ongoing, individual adaptability. Adaptations that an intelligent species may make in a single generation, other species make over many generations of selective breeding and selective dying. Yet intelligence is demanding. If it is misdirected by accident or by intent, it can foster its own orgies of breeding and dying.
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When I was 40 and looking at 60, it seemed like a thousand miles away. But 62 feels like a week and a half away from 80. I must now get on with those things I always talked about doing but put off.
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It is not when he is working in the office but when he is lying idly on the sand that his soul utters, 'Life is beautiful.'
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Sweet little rock and roller, sweet little rock and roller Her daddy don’t have to scold her, her mother can’t hardly hold her She never gets any older, sweet little rock and roller
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Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. So if, from perhaps some unhealthy desire for sympathetic support, you describe your life in negative terms you will find that this will reinforce your mind's negative emotions and make you unhappy and even more susceptible to feeling unhappy in the future. By simply doing the reverse and focusing on why you are lucky and grateful things are not worse, you will strengthen and increase your mind's positive emotions and make yourself happy and even more likely to feel happy in the future.
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Our moms accuse us of selling out all the time, so we're still trying to cope with that. They claim to be true fans, like they've been there from the beginning, and they think that we've kind of, like, changed as humans.
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I don't think we'd be the business that we are today if we were spread out in the suburban areas.
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I really enjoy doing films, but I also love television. I certainly would not be against doing some regular television work and being on a show that runs several years.
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For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.
