Oscar Levant Quotes

It would have been better if you had died and Gershwin had written the elegy.

Oscar Levant

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• Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Important
  • Giving
  • Way

• My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Action

• God only expects man and woman to be together and to be legally married, only if they so are in love with each other.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • God
  • Love
  • For Her

• Going forward, we will focus on building the very best Windows phones on a quicker timeline. We will also focus on the channels and markets that offer the best returns. This is a similar approach to the one we have taken with Surface, which has been very successful.

  

  B. Kevin Turner
  • Focus
  • Best
  • Taken

• My looks have changed. I have laugh lines - not wrinkles.

  

  Iman
  • Looks
  • Laugh
  • Wrinkles

• If you make - not have - $1 million a year, should you not participate in the sense of community of our country? I'm willing to put that on the table.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Country
  • You
  • Community

• Both music and acting are huge parts of my life - it's all about balance.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Life
  • Music
  • Balance

• Every tech product on the body like Jawbone or in the home like August is different. But there are definitely principles that apply across the board for me, such as integration in everyday life and discretion.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Life
  • Everyday
  • Principles

• My mom, she's a great cook. You know, pirogue, borscht. I love borscht, and I love Pilemeni, meat dumplings.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Great
  • Know
  • Mom

• I first encountered Bradbury's writing when I was pretty young. He's a great bridge author between young-adult fiction and literature.

  

  Sam Weller
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• I think it's important not to grow up too fast. I'm 26 now, and I still can't wait for Christmas Day. The inner seven-year-old isn't buried too deeply in me.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • Up
  • Important
  • Day

• When I graduated from college, I went straight to work for a federal contractor, a desk job, and they were great to me, they loved me, I was like their mascot, but I just couldn't stand working in an office. I just hated it. And so one day I went in and said, 'I'm sorry, this is my two-weeks notice, I'm quitting to become an artist.'

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Work
  • Great
  • Job

• It's really easy to project this whole ideology of what being an artiste is, and I'm just not down with intellectualizing it. I just think, if you feel like doing something, then do it.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Think
  • Easy
  • Down

• Peace has been as bad as war. Peace has killed as many people as war. Peace is as bad. Peace is as bad...

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • People
  • War
  • Bad

• I am tempted to say that a doctorate in AI would be negatively useful, but I am not one to hold someone’s reckless youth against them – just because you acquired a doctorate in AI doesn’t mean you should be permanently disqualified.

  

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

• It happens that all those who have something of mine, painting, mobile, or static statue, say that it makes them very happy. For example, children adore mobile statues and understand their meaning immediately. I have seen children, here in France, in America or in Great Britain, run and shout with joy in my exhibitions. They like it instinctively.

  

  Alexander Calder
  • Great
  • Children
  • America

• The 2008 Olympics has created an illusion of China to the public and to the outside world. It is so fantastic, so unreal, that the entire meaning of the games is being distorted.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • World

• I have been taking stock of my 50 years since I left Wichita. How I have existed fills me with horror for I failed in everything. Spelling, arithmetic, writing, swimming, tennis, golf, dancing, singing, acting, wife, mistress, whore, friend, even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of not trying. I tried with all my heart.

  

  Louise Brooks
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Heart

• Sometimes, you have to make the choice to forgive 10 times a day when you have these pockets of anger come up. That's a lot of work, but to me it's worthwhile.

  

  Amanda Lindhout
  • Up
  • Work

• If white and black and red and brown can come together to focus our energies on overcoming the racial malaise that persists, then this will have been a great moment.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Together
  • Energy
  • Focus

• I spent a lot of time denying the idea that I could be gay or trans to myself. From the ages of 14 to 16, I was mostly convinced that I was just going through 'phases.' I ran away mentally, especially at night with access to the Internet and the labyrinth of anonymous communications.

  

  Chelsea Manning
  • Time
  • Night
  • Gay

• Everyone has their own career, their own fate, and everyone writes their own story.

  

  Alexandre Lacazette
  • Career
  • Story
  • Fate

• It would have been better if you had died and Gershwin had written the elegy.

  

  Oscar Levant