Philip Levine Quotes
No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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The future ain't what it used to be.
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You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.
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Some people are embarrassed to say they came from East St. Louis, Ill., but now more people want to claim it. I grew up in a community center and I knew what it gave me. I always knew I wanted to give back and help people because people helped me.
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Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.
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People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.
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I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.
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'Bloo' is a compilation of a few songs I've written over the past year, inspired by the necessity of finding happiness in the people I choose to surround myself with.
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You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.
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I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.
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A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
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Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
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The only thing I have is instinct and intuition and just staying very, very connected to the moments and try to bring in what your gut is telling you.
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You think I'm going to ask these sweet 14 year olds to ask their parents to buy a $100 ticket then run around in latex and lip sync? No way.
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The shining star in the world is Shanghai. That's what CEOs from big companies say - 'if I want mathematical analytical work done, it's done in China.'
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I'm pretty goofy. I laugh at my own jokes.
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So I won an Oscar. It's amazing. I've got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It nearly killed me. I am really proud of the film. That's it, moving on.
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You can take anything, and if you explore it right, you can make it funny.
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My dream tour would be like, me, Cole, Drake, Sean, Meek. I think that would be dope, something like that; big venues.
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There's a line that runs between everyone and their ancestors, and you cannot sever that. Maybe disassociate from those ideas but not how you are connected to them. But, you can realise how you've benefited and change how you raise your kids.
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Black scientists and technicians, many of them women, used cells from a black woman to help save the lives of millions of Americans, most of them white. And they did so on the same campus—and at the very same time—that state officials were conducting the infamous Tuskegee syphilis studies.
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Please don't assault me with that meat amalgam. It would surely cause infection.
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No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.
