James Levine Quotes
Women tend to have recognition and peer group support - recognition from friends and family that this has to be a big issue in their lives. They're more comfortable expressing the need for support and receiving it.
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What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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The American people likewise want to see enforcement first, no tricks, no triggers, no amnesty, enforcing existing laws and closing loopholes to reaffirm that our great Republic is, in fact, a nation of laws.
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With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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It's been tough for me being away from the game.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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It's a big theme throughout my music to just embrace everything about your own mind and to always feel powerful. It's not just a feminine thing, but for men, too, whether they feel weak, or strong or crazy or reclusive. I want everyone to feel powerful no matter what little beasts they have in their head.
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If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.
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It's true about the eyes being the window to the soul. Your face can be etched with worry, and twisted by ageing, but the eyes tell the true story of who you are.
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I was lucky enough to have parents with a huge film library. My mum is a huge Bollywood film geek. When we were kids, we would watch Indian films with her as well as Chinese and Japanese films. My father was more into the classics, American films, and also Hitchcock films.
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I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.
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My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.
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What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
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I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests.
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I got really hooked on this riff in the middle of this song called 'Minor Miracles' by my friend Eric Johnson from Fruit Bats. I got the tracks for that from him, and that turned into 'Here in Spirit.'
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Defending human rights should be an important objective of foreign policy, and that, too, will sometimes be hard to reconcile with an economic agenda, especially when it comes to dealing with rich but repressive players like China and Russia.
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I'm more of a homebody. I'm constantly asked: 'Why don't we see you out?' But that's not what drives me. I prefer to have people over - which I do a lot, because I bought a house that's way too big for me, and four of my friends live there.
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The female body is something that's so beautiful. I wish women would be proud of their bodies and not diss other women for being proud of theirs.
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If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.
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Women tend to have recognition and peer group support - recognition from friends and family that this has to be a big issue in their lives. They're more comfortable expressing the need for support and receiving it.
