Oscar Levant Quotes
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I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.
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Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
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We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.
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A lot of people tell me, 'You are from North; how do you manage to get along in the South?' I don't know what to say to them. I've always felt at home here, and by learning to speak Telugu, my connection with the place has gotten that much stronger.
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Something like 'The Matrix' would be ideal, something where it's super agents and wire work and special effects - not necessarily running from bombs and shooting people. Something more sleek, like an assassin.
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Throughout his long career, Washington earned the adulation not merely of ordinary people but of the other luminaries whom we now hail as 'founding fathers.'
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I know how to fake someone out, if they break into my house, into thinking there are other people there.
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People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life.
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Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.
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To me, it's weird when people review improv at all.
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I barely need to reiterate what you already know: the close links that exist between our people and the people of Venezuela and Hugo Chavez, the promoter of the Bolivarian Revolution and the United Socialist Party he founded.
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My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.
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Weight training and working on being explosive helped me gain a few yards of pace. Even when I was small, I was stocky. Even if people pushed me, I managed to stay on my feet.
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A lot of people thought you couldn't be a top-level athlete as a vegan, but people like Mac Danzig and Jake Shields are proving that's wrong. And it's better for me as a performer.
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Have I done more business-related things to help my career grow? Yeah. I took the business end more seriously, hooked up with a manager, got some help, because at a certain point, you get frustrated when you go do auditions, and people say you did a great job, and then you don't get he part.
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No one plans to get sick or hurt - I certainly didn't - but most people will need medical care at some point in their lives.
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People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
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I've always ignored the labels people put on things.
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When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.
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Philosophers are moral, and poets are picturesque about the country.
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The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
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The myths have always condemned those who 'looked back.' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.
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Women of my generation who've stayed in science have done it by playing the men at their own game.
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I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.
