James Levine Quotes
The invisible dilemma is that men face the very real problem that they don't feel comfortable bringing these issues up and they tend not to be acknowledged at work.
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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Promotions can be seen in two ways - either you hate them, and they're a burden, and you are getting through with it, or you can enjoy them. I decided early on that I was going to enjoy them. I did 43 interviews in a day for 'Kahaani.'
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In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible.
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It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.
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The United States is going to be a rich country, it is going to be prosperous, but it is not going to be able to take the lead in the next phase of global economic development.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
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I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don't understand why it's the government's responsibility.
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Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.
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Sometimes I have the idea right away, like, "Oh, this is what this song's about. This is how I'm feeling."
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The Wizard Of Oz" has secrets that are just too much. Or "Peter Pan" – the whole 'lost boys' thing is just incredible. They’re not childlike at all, they’re really, really deep; you can rule your life by them. Or say 'child-like', because children are the most brilliant people of all, that’s why they relate to those stories so well. Fairy-tales are wonderful.
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I'm lighter now in a lot of ways.
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When somebody's face-to-face with you saying, 'I may not have been here had I not read your book,' how do you respond to that? The first several times I traveled, it was almost too much. I was totally grateful, but emotionally, it was really hard.
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The invisible dilemma is that men face the very real problem that they don't feel comfortable bringing these issues up and they tend not to be acknowledged at work.
