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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I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children.
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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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Not many countries establish a prize for peace. The Seoul Peace Prize has its roots in the 1988 Summer Olympics when this country opened its doors to people and athletes from more than 160 countries. Korea did so in part because it believes in the power of sports for peace and development.
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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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Memories so treacherous...
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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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Physical development fosters learning.
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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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Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
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Knowledge by itself does not give understanding. Nor is understanding increased by an increase of knowledge alone. Understanding depends upon the relation of knowledge to being...It appears only when a man feels and senses what is connected with it.
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I think that if you can achieve a balance, then you appease a lot of yourself and your career and what it takes to maintain in this business for a while.
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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.
