Oscar Levant Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
-
I'm not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole thing. I also feel that organised religion has caused far more problems than it has solved.
-
I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
-
I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
-
Sometimes what I think what the news is missing is the human element, the connection - the moment that you look into a little girl's eyes or a father who has just left his family and risked everything just to try and survive.
-
The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.
-
The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is a completely different way of storytelling, and it has limitations.
-
I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
-
I loved things like Destiny's Child, and Amy Winehouse's first record came out when I was 11 years old. But as a young, young child, I was just surrounded by Stevie Wonder, Whitney Houston, Chaka Khan - just massive, soulful voices.
-
The game is never over. No matter what the scoreboard reads or what the referee says, it doesn't end when you come off the court.
-
Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
-
I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
-
Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.
-
We don't have performances as big as 'Lemonade Mouth' on 'Zeke and Luther,' but they're both amazing experiences; just, 'Lemonade Mouth' was a bit bigger. It was different for me.
-
Your goal in an online dating profile and in your first message to somebody is to strike up a conversation.
-
Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.
-
I loved 'Dirty Sexy Money.' That didn't have a long enough shelf life. I would've liked to explore that character and play with that cast longer. That was a lot of fun to shoot.
-
When it comes to working out, I really don't like the gym. I go because I have to, but I'm usually not happy about it. I do what my trainer and coaches tell me to do, but I'm always anxious to get outside.
-
A good leader must be fair.
-
The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
-
You ought to pity me 'cause there's always one man to love/ But in the bedroom the size of him's more than enough.
-
Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.
-
Few realise that English poetry is rather like the British constitution, surrounded by pompous precedents and reverences.
-
I don't drink. I don't like it. It makes me feel good.
