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.

  

  Harry Browne
  • World
  • Remember
  • War

• My mom took me to a Dolly Parton concert when I was 3.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Concert

• But then I hit my 20s and only made two albums, and now I live in a ski resort as a ski bum basically.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Live
  • Two
  • Now

• I will venture to maintain that where the teacher is not pleasing to the pupil, there is no education.

  

  Xenophon
  • Education
  • Teacher
  • Will

• I'm going to trust my instincts when something's wrong.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Trust
  • Wrong
  • Instincts

• Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?

  

  Fanny Crosby
  • Dark
  • Deep
  • Ocean

• 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.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Love
  • Reality
  • Feel

• There's no doubt I expect to die in prison.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Die
  • Doubt
  • Prison

• 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.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Good
  • Women
  • Nice

• The object of art - like every other product - creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Art

• 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.

  

  Taliesin
  • Journey
  • Army

• Fear is the brother of hate.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Fear
  • Hate
  • Brother

• 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.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Time
  • Men
  • Past

• Memories so treacherous...

  

  Alan Moore
  • Memories

• 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.

  

  Arun Jaitley
  • World
  • Country
  • Democracy

• 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.'

  

  Donald Trump
  • Time

• 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.

  

  Karen Civil
  • People
  • Work
  • Business

• 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.

  

  Charice Pempengco
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Song

• 'The Assassination of Jesse James' remains one of my favorite films that I've done. You know, it's still labeled a loser.

  

  Brad Pitt
  • Done

• We humans think linearly but tech trends are exponential.

  

  Vinod Khosla
  • Thinking
  • Humans
  • Lessons

• I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • World
  • Thought
  • Design

• In the end, you can't censor the truth, especially when it comes packaged in hot music.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Music
  • Truth
  • Ends

• 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.

  

  James Levine