Oscar Levant Quotes
I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.
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I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
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People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.
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I loved theatre and film when I was growing up in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. My mum's a reflexologist and my dad's a corporate financier.
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NASA should start thinking about this planet.
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What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.
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When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.
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Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
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Most mutations involve typos: Something bumps a cell's elbow as it's copying DNA, and the wrong letter appears in a triplet - CAG becomes CCG.
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In the south, whether it is a small film or a big film, everybody sees it. So, there is always something for everybody to come, see, and enjoy.
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I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.
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There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.
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I read everything and anything. I love books.
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Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs.
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I'm a foodie. I enjoy it a lot, and contrary to what it looks, I eat a lot. My comfort food, of all things, would be southern soul barbecue.
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The only way the kingdom of God is going to be manifest in this world before Christ comes is if we manifest it by the way we live as citizens of heaven and subjects of the King.
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Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.
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I think the truth is always simple. It has pretty much got to be. It needs to be simple enough for a child to understand. Otherwise it'd be too late. By the time you figured it out it would be too late.
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Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.
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I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.
