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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Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.
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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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What happened in the past can help you know what's going to happen in the future. That insight brings a next level of intelligence not just to sales and marketing but to ERP, where you can save more money in procurement or figure out whether the people you recruit are going to be successful in your organization.
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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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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
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The main way that being adopted has shaped my songwriting is that I was asked at an early age to consider the circumstances that led to my life, and in a way, I was introduced to how fragile and unlikely life is from the beginning.
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When I was growing up, my father helped kindle my passion for innovation and technology. He was a high-ranking executive at AT&T and used our family dinner table as a focus group.
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For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.
