Oscar Levant Quotes
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
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When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.
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If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.
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Most people who aspire to be president don't have a foreign policy and national security background. The exception was certainly Hillary Clinton.
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I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.
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I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
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Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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When I arrive at my destination, I like to hit the gym, as I find exercise helps combat jet lag.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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I had a lot of vocal problems when I was younger. I don't know if it's down to leading a healthier lifestyle or what but my range has increased.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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I've spent my life visiting a handful of people who are very close to me when they've been committed to one hospital or another in New York.
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I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
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I hate negative ads in general.
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I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to improve society by networking human minds.
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When I was a child, I felt at times that I had been born into an insane asylum, that much of human life appeared to be an insane asylum. It was bewildering.
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The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes.
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If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name.
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Not necessarily, a lot of my songs are firmly tongue in cheek.
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Harry Dresden: The U.S. isn’t a perfect place, but it’s better than most people have managed to come up with. And all my stuff is there.
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Here we are at the edge of the world, the very edge of Western civilization, and all of us are so desperate to feel something, anything, that we keep falling into each other and f*****g our way toward the end of days.
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The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.
