James Levine Quotes
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I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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Women are blessed with energy - a power which is unique. I have been very fortunate to have played strong women and explored their strengths through my films.
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When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'
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I love the quality of TIDAL. I appreciate what they're trying to do and what they're trying to accomplish.
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People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.
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I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.
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PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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Eddie Haas talked a lot about not hitting the ball in the air.
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I do not believe in populism. I am not a supporter of radical decisions. Practice has shown that usually these are harmful.
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That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way.
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
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I'm a military guy. I'm not a political character.
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The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
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Primates feel pure, flat immobility as boredom. But dogs feel it as peace.
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I'm ticking things off my list: I had a tumor removed; I had spinal surgery; I had four surgeries in three months.
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Baseball, like Pericles' Athens (or any other good society), is simultaneously democratic and aristrocratic. Anyone can enjoy it, but the more you apply yourself, the more you enjoy it.
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It's the unusual leading man. Most of the Hollywood leading men are powerful and capable and strong, heroes. He has this vulnerability, he's fragile, he struggles to find a way to live from day to day that we can identify with, that we can understand.
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My real name is Joe Kennedy, but if you live in Massachusetts, you can't sign 'Joe Kennedy.' So, back in 1957, I stuck the X on my name to be different from those people in Hyannis Port.
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Where my tastes in music are concerned, I'm a real maximalist.
