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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But then I hit my 20s and only made two albums, and now I live in a ski resort as a ski bum basically.
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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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I'm going to trust my instincts when something's wrong.
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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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Him they would not harm, Englishmen being, though infidel, yet the race of past District Officers, judges, doctors, men perhaps, in their time, more helpful than otherwise, powerful but mild.
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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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The blueprint, for me, was having an understanding of self because this business will try to make you somebody other than yourself or make you change with the times. A lot of times, people will want you to do everything for free, work for free, to be down to do this after you paid your dues.
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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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It's easier to play aggression and malevolence onscreen, often, than to hit softer notes.
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In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clenched fist none.
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When I was studying architecture in the 1970s, it was intellectually bankrupt.
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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.
