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 self-help section of national bookstore chains in America is one of the largest sections. In a way, it's nothing new, and in another way, very new. People have always searched for answers; that's why we have religion. People have always been seeking some relief from their own mortality.
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First, they take away our privacy. Now, they take away our food choice.
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I love that my friends are sometimes even 20, 30 years older than me - that I can just sit and enjoy their company and their experiences.
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From that high mount of God whence light and shade Spring both, the face of brightest heaven had changed To grateful twilight.
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It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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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.
