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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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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British passion for Chinese tea was unstoppable, but the Chinese had no desire for our offerings, however much we tried to sell them woolen clothes or cutlery.
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What I have seen in my travels across this country is the dedication, the commitment, and the resolve of our brave men and women in law enforcement to improving policing, to embracing the 21st Century Task Force recommendations, and to continuing to have a dialogue that makes our country safer for all.
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I think America has more than enough maturity and intelligence to start exercising its world leadership responsibly.
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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
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So often when we historicize material, we use this big wide-angle lens.
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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.
