James Levine Quotes

I have a big problem with conductors who gesture a lot.

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• Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.

  

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• Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Up
  • High
  • Water

• A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.

  

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• We go after legacies because we just know that, sooner or later, people will understand what we bring to this culture and bring to the game.

  

  Fat Joe
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• I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.

  

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• As my blog editor knows all too well, I wasn't all that keen to enter the blogosphere world.

  

  Warren Bennis
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• Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.

  

  Beck
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• I can easily sleep from nine to 13 hours a night.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Night
  • Sleep
  • I Can

• I've spent many a long flight talking to flight attendants, trying to understand what kind of employment experience underlies such a consistent lack of concern for customers.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Long
  • Trying
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• In me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Life

• There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.

  

  Walter Benjamin

• No one in art has yet penetrated as far as Dostoyevsky into the mystical realms of the soul, towards the metaphysical, the subconsciousness, viewing the external reality of the world as merely a sign, a symbol of the spiritual and metaphysical.

  

  Edvard Munch
  • World
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• Could only have been painted by a madman.

  

  Edvard Munch

• No - we need money first.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
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• Princes appear to me to be Fools Houses of Commons & Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools they seem to me to be something Else besides Human Life.

  

  Prince
  • Life

• Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.

  

  Edward Albee
  • Long
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• Ergo domine...credimus te esse aliquid quo nihil maius cogitari possit.

  

  Anselm of Canterbury

• All I can say is that the Great Barrier Reef is the most vulgar thing I’ve ever seen. It’s one’s worst nightmare, full of frightful loud colours, peacock blues, and impossible oranges all higgledy-piggledy while one’s mask floods.

  

  Edward St Aubyn
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• My uncle's a lawyer and I remember going to see him in court and thinking, 'That's cool, too bad I could never be a lawyer.'

  

  Lena Dunham
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• We are just fans of music, we are not fans of a specific kind of music. We just happen to be a rock band. Until we explain ourselves, sometimes people don't understand why we limit ourselves to just being a rock band. It's because that is what we like doing.

  

  Joe Elliott Def Leppard
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  • Music
  • Why

• You put your head on the ground, and in that moment everything was okay.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed

• I don't doubt these women have bad experiences. I myself had bad experiences in a monogamous relationship years ago, but that doesn't make me against all marriage.

  

  Ann Wright
  • Relationship
  • Marriage
  • Experiences

• When people say, "Oh, she plays like a dude," it's usually dudes who are the ones saying it. They're saying, "Oh, she's as good as us." Of course, that's a stupid statement.

  

  Esperanza Spalding
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Statement

• I have a big problem with conductors who gesture a lot.

  

  James Levine