James Levine Quotes
It wasn't that I ever knew I'd be at the Met for 20 years, or 30 years, or 40 years, or anything like that.
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I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.
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My mom took me to a Dolly Parton concert when I was 3.
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I will venture to maintain that where the teacher is not pleasing to the pupil, there is no education.
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Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?
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The reality is our story and the way we love and our taste in clothing and everything else. And what we ambitiously feel we can be.
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There's no doubt I expect to die in prison.
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For a decade, feminists have drilled their disciples to say, 'Rape is a crime of violence but not of sex.' This sugar-coated Shirley Temple nonsense has exposed young women to disaster. Misled by feminism, they do not expect rape from the nice boys from good homes who sit next to them in class.
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The object of art - like every other product - creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.
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He would not journey without a foot. He would not breed nuts without trees, Like seeking for ants in the heath. Like an instrument of foolish spoil, Like the retinue of an army without a head, Like feeding the unsheltered on lichen.
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Fear is the brother of hate.
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The last 60 years have seen collapse of many democracies. For a poor country, it is more difficult to sustain a democracy. From poverty, we have come to being a developing nation. Not only did we survive, we have the distinction of becoming world’s largest democracy.
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If you look - look at - I mean, look at what's going on with your gasoline prices. They're going to go to $5, $6, $7 and we don't have anybody in Washington that calls OPEC and says, 'Fellas, it's time. It's over. You're not going to do it anymore.'
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I think being on 'Glee' is such a great experience, but I think the best part was when I did 'All By Myself', because I love that song.
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When dealing with a subject who is dead, you have this feeling of being God. You know who they're going to marry, when they're going to die. It's strange to feel so omniscient.
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I can't really say how big the cult is. But I'm proud of it. I'm proud that it has a life.
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Sometimes I say to myself, what are you doing in this absurd job? Why don't you go to Africa and help people? But I cannot help people, because I am a hypochondriac.
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I don't feel like myself without the red lip. I feel like I'm taking a risk or something without it.
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When the mood takes me, I like to be a man of action. I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the better!
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I had a whole bunch of bad country songs, so I put 'em all on an album.
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I just sort of go along and say what I think -and that's all you can do in life, really.
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
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It is the spirit of the quest which helps
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It wasn't that I ever knew I'd be at the Met for 20 years, or 30 years, or 40 years, or anything like that.
