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 people know I wrote 'Thelma and Louise,' they don't want to mess with me.
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Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us.
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There's one thing we all share: We eat to nurture ourselves, to feel stronger.
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I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.
