Oscar Levant Quotes
John O'Hara was a terrible bore as a young man-always looking for a fight, and making sure he never found one.
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The fear that individuality will be crushed out by the growing 'tyranny' of standardization is the sort of myth which cannot withstand the briefest examination.
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It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
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I'm not out there to be blocking shots or fighting guys. I'm out there to produce offensively.
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These people have elevated audacity to symphonic and operatic levels. The Florida Supreme Court relied on new law to resolve the election dispute down there.
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As I grow older, I become more and more of a Marxist - Groucho, that is. When you have lived two-thirds of your life, you know the value of a good joke.
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When you have girl children they torture you!
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There is no doubt that Formula 1 has the best risk management of any sport and any industry in the world.
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I can play a man who's despicable. But I'll still look inside him to find a point of connection. If I can find that kernel, audiences will relate to me.
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Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.
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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
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Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.
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People tend to like an athlete's performance, but if you don't get a feeling for the individual, you're not very emotive about them.
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I am continually embarrassed by people who point me out as an example of what can be done without training.
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The thing about this business is that you always end up finding these amazing stories and these amazing people who make amazing films. I just want to work with good people and keep challenging myself with different kinds of characters.
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When you have a little one, you realize that your only mission in life is to protect this helpless, very sensitive creature. That is your charge. That's primal. I relate to that deeply.
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Agriculture was the first manufacturing industry in America and represents the best of all of us.
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Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
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In my first publishable research, I obtained evidence that the replication of polio viral RNA engendered a multi-stranded intermediate, although my description of that intermediate proved flawed in its details.
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I don't feel responsible for things I didn't vote for.
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The plumbing and pluvial dynamics of the Amazon, the largest freshwater system on Earth, are still far from understood. This is partly because it is a semi-open system. Moisture flows in and out unpredictably. A lot of nonlinear feedback loops and 'remote influences' - continental, transcontinental, oceanic, meteorological - come into play.
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I love writing prose. I really love writing prose. It's very pleasurable for me.
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Goodbye, master, my dear! Forgive your Sam. He'll come back to this spot when the job's done - if he manages it. And then he'll not leave you again. Rest you quiet till I come; and may no foul creature come anigh you! And if the Lady could hear me and give me one wish, I would wish to come back and find you again. Good bye!
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Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.
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John O'Hara was a terrible bore as a young man-always looking for a fight, and making sure he never found one.
