Philip Levine Quotes
For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.
Quotes to Explore
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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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My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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Thoughts lead to acts, acts lead to habits, habits lead to character - and our character will determine our eternal destiny.
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I don't like the tendency on the part of so many people today to think that those who don't agree with them are bad. In fact, I find that very dangerous.
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Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
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If you ever get to the place where injustice doesn't bother you, you're dead.
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I don't feel famous.
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For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.
