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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I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college.
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When I went to college, I thought I was going to become a professional musician. I was a French horn player, so I went to Yale to study with a very unusual French horn player.
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The impact of climate change is a tremendous risk to the security and well-being of our countries.
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When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.
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Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
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At college, I wasn't passionate about anything I was studying.
