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

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

  

  Xenophon
  • Education
  • Teacher
  • Will

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • God
  • Feeling
  • Die

• I can't really say how big the cult is. But I'm proud of it. I'm proud that it has a life.

  

  Bob Odenkirk
  • Life
  • Proud

• 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.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • People
  • Why
  • Job

• I don't feel like myself without the red lip. I feel like I'm taking a risk or something without it.

  

  Rita Ora
  • Risk
  • Red

• 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!

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Action
  • Mood

• I always have a very strong sense of shaming oneself, and you can do that a lot in the public eye, so it's best avoided at all costs I think.

  

  Chris Lowe Pet Shop Boys
  • Strong

• People who read me seem to be divided into four groups: twenty-five percent like me for the right reasons; twenty-five percent like me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the right reasons. It's that last twenty-five percent that worries me.

  

  Robert Frost
  • People
  • Hate
  • Reason

• I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have a wedding.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • People
  • Wedding

• I think about all of my students who were math-phobic, who didn't believe they could learn math, who didn't understand, who didn't think they were smart enough, and by the end, they understood that they already had the gifts, and my job was to help them access them, and I believe that.

  

  DeRay Mckesson
  • Believe
  • Job
  • Help

• The people running Silicon Valley are not making the show because they want to do a satire of Silicon Valley. They are just comedy writers, and they want to make a funny show.

  

  Daniel Lyons
  • People
  • Funny
  • Running

• 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