Philip Levine Quotes
I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others.
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
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I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.
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Kai-Fu's Innovation Works is the top very-early-stage fund in China. We are proud to be an investor, and hope that IW will help to produce in China companies on the scale of Facebook, Zynga, or Groupon.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.
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I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.
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I built the business exactly the way my mother built and ran her family. I wanted a replication of the big, happy family I grew up in. I wanted happy people having fun.
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I grew up very differently than a lot of other people in my hometown in Mississippi. But I can't imagine my life any other way. I flew home and surprised my best friend at his graduation, and I remember turning to my mom and saying, 'My graduation was so much cooler than this.' I had Melissa Joan Hart give my commencement speech.
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I will say that rowing in the first Olympics was probably one of the most proud moments in my life. What I enjoy about the sport is that it's definitive. Nobody can take away from the fact that you're an Olympian. It's indisputable. You get there on merit and merit alone.
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No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
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I want to play a psycho, something more challenging than just 'the girlfriend' part.
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The question is not, 'Do you have a problem?' The question is, 'Does the problem have you?'
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Matthew Broderick and Megan Mullally were unbelievable to work with in 'How to Succeed.'
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Czech Republic is an important part of central Europe. It's clear that we must participate in European integration. I am convinced that the Czech Republic - or, in the past, Czechoslovakia - would have been one of the founding members of the EU if it hadn't been for the communist takeover in 1948.
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They say hard work pays off Well tell the Based God don't quit his day job
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I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others.
