Oscar Levant Quotes
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
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As we all know... golf is a puzzle without an answer.
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The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.
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I know what it is like to fear violence. I understand the adrenalin rush that comes before violent confrontations. I write my scripts from an emotional point of view and direct so the audience can experience this adrenalin rush.
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In my personal life, I would just feel like, I will always be cool with everyone.
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I have only a few really enviable skills, but packing - condensing just the right amount of stuff into a single bag, whether the trip is for a weekend or, as in this case, seven weeks - is one of them.
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It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my father seemed like a familiar story or a distant dream.
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I care about Bahrain. Bahrain is very dear to me. I will not allow people to play around with our laws.
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When you battle Nancy Pelosi as much as I have, you're bound to get a few wrinkles.
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Most of my best games were when I felt crap - I could hardly move on the morning of the World Cup semi-final in 1990 - but there's a thing called adrenaline that gets you through.
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A lot of my work is about what's abstract and what's pictorial. Is it bubblegum, or is it an abstract painting using bubblegum? The energy comes from walking that line and watching things dip this way and that.
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I was aware of a lot of my friends being into things I wasn't into. Like sarcasm. It had never been a part of my family - they still don't use sarcasm.
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I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.
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I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all.
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I was living with my dad, and I loved it. But I could totally imagine that if I didn't move out quickly, I would end up staying there well into my 30s.
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I like 'Futurama.' That's kind of the only thing that's my sci-fi thing, although I was big into zombies for a time.
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Words are the counters of wise men, but the money of fools.
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How should I know why! I didn't invent human beings, Iggy.
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There's something troubling about a condition in which one country alone, which has roughly 5 percent of the world's population, spends more than 50 percent of the world's defense budgets. There's something weird about it.
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We should have a system of licensing and registration, we should treat firearms the same way that automobiles are treated so that people have to pass a safety test.
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It certainly will be if you are still around.
