James Levine Quotes

We're in the midst of an evolution, not a revolution.

James Levine

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• Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Up
  • Love
  • Door

• If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • Good
  • You
  • Proud

• I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Friends
  • Always
  • Writer

• As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Teenager

• There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Great
  • Tradition
  • Kings

• Magic frightens people almost as much as it intrigues them.

  

  Rachel Swirsky
  • People
  • Magic
  • Almost

• Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Play
  • Wall
  • Down

• As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Time
  • Culture
  • Decision

• Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Success
  • Internet
  • Nobody

• So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Up
  • Women
  • Why

• Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Game
  • Night
  • Nice

• In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Try
  • Old

• I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Trying
  • Black

• I do think it's possible to change for the better.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Think
  • Change
  • Better

• The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Real
  • Success
  • Positive

• All political parties, organizations, and all people should abide by the constitution and laws without any exception. They must all act in accordance with the constitution and laws. I see that as a defining feature of modern political system development.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • People
  • Political

• Well, on the one hand the Turks have the legitimate need to defend their national dignity - and this includes being recognized as a part of the west and Europe.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Hand
  • Need
  • Dignity

• I've been drinking tequila for a long time now, and it's never been about drinking to get drunk. I don't do that. I never drink tequila during the day, and I don't drive at night.

  

  Sammy Hagar Chickenfoot
  • Time
  • Long
  • Night

• Anything negative that comes at me throughout the week, you just take it and put it in that box over there for motivation and use it on Sunday.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Week
  • motivation
  • Sunday

• The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Violence
  • Revolution
  • Matter

• I think being a writer is being heavily attuned to the absolute absurdity of things you take for granted, and I think that having actual parents who lived through the Cultural Revolution who are also interested in literature, they're also very attuned to those moments.

  

  Jenny Zhang
  • Parents
  • Moments
  • Literature

• power is not a thing to be owned. But if you believe that it is such a thing, losing it becomes a possibility to fear. That fear, I think, is one reason for the dark projections of a catastrophic future that are so widespread, in our dual society. The present powerful, being committed to polarization, expect that any new deal will overturn the one that set them in authority; that the last shall be first and the first last, role reversal everywhere, men as slaves, women as masters, in a revolution of contradiction.

  

  Elizabeth Janeway
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

• We're in the midst of an evolution, not a revolution.

  

  James Levine
  • Revolution