James Levine Quotes
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
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I've dealt with a lot of couples over the years, and most cite the battle for closet and bathroom space as one of the most frequent causes of marital discord.
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The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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Thinking differently is my strength.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me 'yellow gal.' I was caught in between both sides - nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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My most annoying habit is complaining about my aches and pains. It's the new ones that I haven't identified yet that make me nervous. According to my wife, I complain way too much. I may be a borderline hypochondriac, or you could say I am fascinated by the body - at least by mine.
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I do a lot of TV stuff, but I also turn a lot down - it's got to be an adventure.
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
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When you have that long, flowing hair, you feel different - when you cut it, the framing of your face changes immediately.
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My parents worked in the art world. They were really supportive of my music in that they allowed me to drop out of school and move out of our home, which not many parents would do.
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I get up 5:30-6 every morning. I'm in the gym. I run a couple miles.
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Our visions are the plans of the possible life structure, but they will end in plans if we do not follow them up with a vigorous effort to make them real, just as the architect's plans will end in his drawings if they are not followed up and made real by the builder.
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I think it's important for little girls growing up, and young women, to have one in every walk of life. So from that point of view, I'm proud to be a role model!
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Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.
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I enjoy going on hikes, and I enjoy the occasional yoga. The one thing I'm good at athletically - and I don't know if I'm good at it anymore because I haven't done this in a while - I can throw a pretty good spiral in football, but I have no idea how to play.
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Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table.
