Jane Levy Quotes
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I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.
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Justice is revenge.
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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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I never edit the songs that come out. And they tend to come out as a whole. The closest thing I have ever done to editing them is just cutting out a verse, but never rewriting lyrics.
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I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
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I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.
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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
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Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
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I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.
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Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.
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You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words.
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I was a diabetic for 16 years, since I was 14. Being that I lost weight, no more diabetes. You don't have to lose your eyesight, cut off your toes, have a stroke, get kidney failure. You just have to lose weight - you know - for most of the diabetes.
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I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.
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Experience has shown me that standing by oneself reading from one's book isn't especially compelling - unless you're David Sedaris.
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I was too old, too young, too fat, too thin, too tall, too short, too blond, too dark - but at some point, they're going to need the other. So I'd get really good at being the other.
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We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
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That's another piece of advice: Don't go to college; follow your dreams. Unless you're a doctor - then go to college.
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I graduated high school and I didn't have a skill set and I didn't want to go to college. I needed a job.
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I did a lot of traveling after college on trains through India, China, and Russia. I somehow managed to make it back in one piece, and I actually pulled a lot of the anecdotal experiences into the making of 'Transsiberian.'
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When you're responsible for leading a group of young people, you have to be positive. If you're not, you shouldn't be in your job, should you?
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If you don't believe in yourself, you'll have some difficulty in making other people believe in you.
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At college, I wasn't passionate about anything I was studying.