Philip Levine Quotes
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Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It's reality rap. It's about what's really going on.
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Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
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I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.
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From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.
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If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you'll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche.
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I am definitely a person of color.
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It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
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I work out six days a week. Usually 45 minutes of running, then swimming and weightlifting.
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A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.
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I'm not vain - I just love make-up and dressing up.
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Many tech company execs who visit to pitch products take time to peruse the shelves and exclaim upon various devices they owned in younger days.
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I say that religion isn’t about believing things. It’s ethical alchemy. It’s about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness.
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They call, in fact, for the forfeiture, to a greater or less degree, of human liberty, to the point where, were I to attempt to sum up what socialism is, I would say that it was simply a new system of serfdom.
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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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It's up to you now, and we shall help you - that my past does not become your future.
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I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy.
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Most people who open restaurants will fail, because they lack the fundamental understanding of restaurant math. Either they think they're superstar cooks or they think they're superstar hosts.
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I blush easily. I have difficulty meeting people's eye, difficulty with public speaking, the normal afflictions of the shy, but not to a paralysing degree.
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A lot of amateurs are terrified of going up against a player who is clearly better than they are. They never play their best, because they aren't comfortable. There's one surefire way to get over that, and it's to ask yourself, 'What if I beat him?' Imagine the possibility.
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Sir James Jeans
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There's such a fine line between defeat and losing.
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Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it.
