Philip Levine Quotes
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I love anything to do with history.
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That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.
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Human nature is above all things lazy.
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Whether it's backing up or starting, I have the confidence to go out there and do good, so I'm gonna play my role.
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When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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With a successful center-right party such as ours, it is hard for the radical right to find room to operate. This is why they repeatedly attack us in the ugliest manner. They attack us more than they attack the Jewish community or the 'Jewish conspiracy' - which they believe exists. I am one of their main targets.
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Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
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There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?
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Well, I've been acting for 50 years now, professionally. I've been acting a lot longer. My mother reckons I was acting when I got out of the womb. But because I've been working in the theater, I've probably only done about 25 movies but I've done more than 100 plays.
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To grow, people need to be challenged.
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If you play football, there's going to be a 100 percent injury rate. Something is going to be bothering you. So I just try to focus on the things that I can do to help my team.
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Also, when I started racing he knew a lot of people and it was more easy for me to find the first bike, so I have a good chance for sure.
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He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one.
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I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as a way to make a living.
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Over the years, I've learned a lot about nutrition and about myself, so it's a lot more based on feel. I stopped putting a number on it because people were analyzing it too much.
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I wrote the music column in my high school newspaper.
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That's the great thing about Apple: it's very focused on the things that we know how to do very well and not try to extend ourselves to areas that we know very little about or don't have a lot of expertise in.
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I hold myself to a high standard on and off the field.
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I try to protect my loved ones, the people I share my life with, because they don't have a public life like me. I want to keep their lives private out of respect for them.
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I look back to a happy childhood.
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We don't go to parties much. I am very serious about my work. But I also have two children, and I wanted to do that job well.
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I went to an art high school in Washington D.C., and I majored in visual art. When I started there, I was horrible - couldn't draw, couldn't sketch, couldn't do anything. I remember at one point I came to terms with the fact that I had to work my ass off to do well and that's exactly what I did. I drew and drew and drew, and it worked - I ended up getting the award for best artist and went on to apply to design school because I loved it so much. I think it really speaks to the idea that you can in fact excel at whatever you put your mind and your heart to.
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I write what's given me to write.
