Philip Levine Quotes

I write what's given me to write.

Philip Levine

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• I love anything to do with history.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Love
  • History
  • Anything

• That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Most
  • Australia
  • Countryside

• Human nature is above all things lazy.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Nature
  • Lazy
  • Human Nature

• 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.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Up
  • Good
  • Confidence

• When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Music
  • Kind
  • Facts

• Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

  

  Quintilian
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Changes

• 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.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Community
  • Party
  • Attack

• Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • God
  • Man
  • Almighty

• 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?

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Why
  • Fun
  • Fear

• 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.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Done
  • Mother
  • Acting

• To grow, people need to be challenged.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Need
  • Grow

• 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.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Help
  • Team
  • Focus

• 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.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • People
  • Good
  • Chance

• He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Will
  • Flight
  • Command

• 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.

  

  Natsuo Kirino
  • Writing
  • Career
  • Thought

• 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.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • People
  • Myself
  • Nutrition

• I wrote the music column in my high school newspaper.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• 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.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Great
  • Know
  • Apple

• I like movies. Movies have afforded me a modicum of luxuries. The thing about the movies is, if you're bad in a movie, you're bad forever.

  

  Anthony Mackie
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Forever

• I don't eat bubble gum, but I like the smell.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Like
  • Smell
  • Bubble

• Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to others; that is hidden from us and must remain so, though we are often allowed to see some little fraction of it, so that we may not lose courage.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
  • Life
  • May
  • Courage

• Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift of God. The energy and the power which was so very evident in Jesus will be exhibited in us by an act of the absolute sovereign grace of God, once we have made that complete and effective decision about sin. We have to keep letting go, and slowly, but surely, the great full life of God will invade us, penetrating every part.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • Great
  • God

• I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Artist
  • Fact
  • Performer

• I write what's given me to write.

  

  Philip Levine