Oscar Levant Quotes
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Engaged, enthusiastic, and loyal employees are pivotal drivers of growth and health in any organization.
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Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.
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The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
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My father was a Foreign Service officer, a diplomat and an Arabist who spent virtually all his career in the Near East, as it was called in the State Department. So I spent most of my childhood among the Israelis and the Arabs of Palestine, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
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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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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.
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It no longer counts as remarkable that Egyptians organized their uprising on social media.
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I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.
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I really want to keep modelling, but it's not my number one goal in life. But it's so fun. I love doing it; it's just that - it's not like I just want to be a model when I'm older.
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Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
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Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know?
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The only weights I lift are my dogs.
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When I was performing on streets, there was no pressure. People accepted me. They loved me without knowing me.
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When I came off the boat I was very proud of the thick calluses which had developed on my feet. But now, I am struggling to get into my favourite high heels which is a shame, as I have so many.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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I think that Yulia Tymoshenko should prepare to resign. She understands that well.
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Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.
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It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.
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I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.
