Jane Levy Quotes
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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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Sometimes when you make a record and it's not successful, you just don't want to go through that process for a while. You want to have your wounds heal.
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Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always suspects they don't.
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I say what's on my mind. I go after what I want.
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My romantically favorite era is 78, 79 listening to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 4, the live tapes, echo chamber and break beats.
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It has been my impression that at any gathering, whether it be public or private, those who are quickest to inject words like sensitivity, empathy, consensus, trust, confidentiality, and togetherness into their arguments have perverted these humanitarian words into power tools to get others to adapt to them.
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I find shopping too stressful. I get hot and flustered and irritated and feel sick after I've bought something.
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At college, I wasn't passionate about anything I was studying.
