Oscar Levant Quotes
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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Drawing is not only a way to come up with pictures: drawing is a way to educate your eye to understand visual information, organizing it into a more hierarchical way, a more economical way. When you see something, if you draw often and frequently, you examine a room very differently.
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I got to grow up in an incredibly artistic family.
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I just feel like the days of a handful of executives making the decisions for the entirety of the human public have gone on long enough.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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When online business first appeared, a lot of operations would take your order and then disappear.
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'Your Erroneous Zones' was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.
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The best rappers I know are, like, air-conditioner men.
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We've got some very good things to do without screwing around with sleeves.
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I remember auditioning for the Wonder Woman television show and being told that I wasn't the Wonder Woman type, but if I wanted to play the best friend, I could audition for that.
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At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.
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East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.
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Concerning the blunders which had been made in our foreign policy public opinion is, as a rule, first enlightened when it is in a position to look back upon the history of a generation, and the Achivi qui plectuntur are not always immediately contemporary with the mistaken actions.'
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And if there is one thing that he and this year’s anniversary should teach us, if there’s one lesson I hope that Malia and Sasha and young people everywhere learn from this day, it’s that with enough effort, and enough empathy, and enough perseverance, and enough courage, people who love their country can change it.
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Nil igitur mors est ad nos neque pertinet hilum,quandoquidem natura animi mortalis habetur.
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O Man, as long as you exist, know, have, and cherish, You have not been delivered, believe me, of your burden.
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I trained as a theater actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by.
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That's one thing you Americans take for granted, you know? That you can grow up, you know, not so good circumstances, and you can move. Just because you are born in rural Arkansas, whatever, that doesn't define who you are.
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It's important to take time off because it's a long journey this life, and I want to be singing in 30 years' time. You see a lot of artists who get caught up in the here and now, and they just burn themselves out, and I kind of did that myself with my third album.
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The thing about all my food is that everything is a remembered flavor. Maybe it's something I had as a child or maybe it's something I had in Milan, but I want it to taste better than you ever thought.
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Quite a few people feel uncomfortable when faced with the claim that the Jews are the world's smartest people. In our politically correct era, one is not expected to argue that one group within humanity has an advantage over all the others.
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I came from a dance background, so that's what I did my whole teenage years. I was at the dance studio a lot. It just becomes your social scene and part of your life.
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My time in Weimar Berlin was the most elegant in my life. I would have parties for a hundred people - writers, scientists, artists.
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An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.
