Oscar Levant Quotes
He writes the kind of music you whistle on the way into the theater.
Oscar Levant
Quotes to Explore
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When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
Malorie Blackman
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I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.
Walter Jon Williams
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If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
Viktor E. Frankl
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
Pat Robertson
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I don't have a big career plan. I just like to see how things come out, and I just try to keep going in different directions.
Kate Beckinsale
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Love is a credulous thing.
Ovid
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Overwhelmed by the miraculous potentialities of the machine, our human greed has interfered with the biological cycle of human companionship which keeps the life of a community healthy.
Walter Gropius
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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
Wendell Berry
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Don't confuse honours with achievement.
Zadie Smith
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There are people who, if they see something in couture that they perceive as ready-to-wear, they're in shock.
Raf Simons
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I have four of the most incredible children. And I have five grandchildren.
Florence Henderson
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Tunings are wonderfully inspiring, and it helps you to write music. If I'm stuck, you know, I change the tuning.
Kaki King
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I am passionate about music and my work to the bottom of my very soul, but I also very much enjoy good clothes and some of the finer things in life. Rappers do, too, and perhaps it's one of the reasons I've been welcomed so warmly into their world.
Clive Davis
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What most interests me is human connection, whether it's on the street, in
community, through music, storytelling, and shared experience. People tell me to be a rock cellist, make money, and give up on the activism so I can make more money.
Ben Sollee
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With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.
Adam Osborne
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He writes the kind of music you whistle on the way into the theater.
Oscar Levant
