Philip Levine Quotes
My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.
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Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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All companies that grow really big do so in only one way: people recommend the product or service to other people.
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For writers and artists, it's always a balancing act between wanting to be the center of attention and wanting to be invisible and watch what's going on.
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If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.
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Open-source encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google and Bing, which people can tap into anytime and anywhere via computers and smart phones, put a world of knowledge at our fingertips at a lower cost than ever before.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
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Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.
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I think I had the most fun making a movie with 'Dedication,' just because you knew that it was a passion project for everyone involved. We had X amount of days to shoot New York in the cold. No trailers. Just sort of kind of doing it guerilla style in a way.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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During the first million years of its existence, mankind survived five apocalypses without succumbing to extinction. It endured the Apocalypse of Steel, the Apocalypse of Hydrogen, the Apocalypse of Serotonin, and both Apocalypses of Water, the second of which occurred despite certain contracts to the contrary.
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The troops aren't red and blue. They're not black and white. They're not male and female. They are Americans! When they put their uniforms on, they are Americans. And that's a fact.
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I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at the characters in the early stages and I think, 'What is he or she like,' and they slowly come together and they become the person they are.
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I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.
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I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.
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I have never been able to separate - nor have I wanted to - my personal love and desire for truth, passion, and understanding from my lyrics.
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You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.
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...modern poetry is necessarily obscure; if the reader can’t get it, let him eat Browning...
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To have gone through so much work to heal myself and have my mother not acknowledge in any way that she was sorry for what had happened to me, broke my heart.
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My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.
