James Levine Quotes
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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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I've been told I have an aggressive driving style.
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If I look back I feel frightened, not happy, because my life is a bit of a mystery to me.
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Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.
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If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.
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If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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I love acting. I've been doing it since I was 16, and it's in my nature. It's the thing I do best. But as much as I love acting, I love cinema more. I always had a thing about creating images.
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My parents taught me everything and set me up for life. I owe to them all the things I'm passionate about: music, art, the people I love, my career and family life, the fact that I have children and the way that I raise them.
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It's as if we live in a house which has a vast treasury in one of its rooms. Only we've forgotten about it. So, instead of living a life of royalty, we go about in poverty.
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I'm not very good with stills. I get all twitchy.
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Clothes are interesting and they're there to be played with. I like the idea of costume rather than fashion.
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I think a great first date would be something different... not like movies or going to dinner... going rock climbing together... doing an activity and then going to dinner, so that you guys share an experience, and then you have something to talk about, and it's not the same old thing.
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I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.
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I remember when I got into Juilliard - which was just crazy to me, that I would be studying at a school like that - the choice to cut all my hair off was really symbolic for me.
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I got my story, my dream, from America. The hero I had is Forrest Gump... I like that guy. I've been watching that movie about 10 times. Every time I get frustrated, I watch the movie. I watched the movie before I came here again to New York. I watched the movie again telling me that no matter whatever changed, you are you.
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We have been fortunate enough to do something that has always been out of the mainstream and yet have an audience for what we do.
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I am really bothered when I see my friends facing problems back in Iran, but I tell them that not all the doors are shut.
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She was so fat that her belly button makes an echo.
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Just because you're a luxury brand doesn't mean you have to have an attitude.
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In life, there are no perfect affections.
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We became a really good gateway band for all the kids that went on to love My Chem or Fall Out Boy.
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I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment.
