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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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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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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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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I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one kind of film. I love to see romantic films; I loved watching 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge,' 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.' If I make such films, I will make it with my yardstick, according to my parameters.
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Being first lady is a full-time job. Betty Ford worked full time and should have received a salary. Michelle Obama works full time and should be paid.
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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I tell you, in this country, you don't get much of an education. Throughout high school, through junior college, which is all I went, I didn't know anything about the annihilation of all the Indian nations that were here.
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I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times.
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No solution can ever be found by running in three different directions.
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I am surprised at three things: 1. [A] man runs from death while death is inevitable. 2. One sees minor faults in others, yet overlooks his own major faults. 3. When there is any defect to one's cattle he tries to cure it, but does not cure his own defects.
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I think the first thing I consider is whether I like the script. Once that is done, the next thing I look for is my part in the movie. Many a times you come across good offers, but the part they are offering might not be challenging. So, I don't take up that film.
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When Patti Fox broke up with me, I typed her name over a thousand times on my manual Olivetti until the entire page was beaten into a stiff sheet of black ink.
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What is history but a fable agreed upon?
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Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table.
