Oscar Levant Quotes

It's an advantage having a limited output. When George Gershwin is asked to play his repertoire, he plays all evening. I just play 'Lady Play Your Mandolin' and I'm through.

Oscar Levant

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• That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.

  

  Gamaliel Bailey
  • Money
  • Free
  • Doubt

• When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Movie
  • Child
  • See

• Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • Dark
  • Losing

• I always had a dream to play for India but I never let it put pressure on me.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Dream
  • Me
  • Play

• There's always going to be silly stuff out there in the media that you can't worry too much about, and I don't. We just keep on trucking, and I like the way my... I think there should be 'professional is professional, and personal is personal,' and that's just how I'm going to keep it.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Worry
  • Professional
  • Media

• God and death kind of resemble each other, because the only time a lot of people will try and talk to God is when someone's died.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• My goal is I want to create the 20-20-20 club: 20 sacks, 20 tackles for loss, 20 batted balls.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Want
  • Goal
  • Loss

• If you're in California, and it's raining, stay home because nobody can drive in the rain. It's like it's raining frogs. They're terrified.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Home
  • California
  • Rain

• We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Reality
  • Often
  • Self-Love

• Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Baby
  • Eating
  • Bear

• A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Up
  • You
  • Golf

• Boundaries, and countries, if we don't have that we are all brothers and sisters, we can all have love and joy and compassion for each other: the world would be much more beautiful.

  

  Bai Ling
  • World
  • Love
  • Beautiful

• I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Work
  • Character
  • Problem

• I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Businesses
  • Board
  • Recession

• Once someone I was working with said, 'You know, Vanna, some people think about what they're having for lunch tomorrow and you're thinking hundreds of years into the future.'

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Future

• Liberty is the possibility of isolation.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• To err is human, to forgive divine.

  

  Alexander Pope

• All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • War

• 'There's nothing more boring than a rock'n'roll star, someone who has been on the road for 10 years, expecting attention wherever he goes, drinking himself stupid, who is obnoxious, incoherent, uncreative and has a massive ego. There's nothing more pointless.' - source

  

  Thom Yorke Radiohead
  • Attention
  • Rock
  • Star

• Since my subjects have always been my sensations, my states of mind and the profound reactions that life has been producing in me, I have frequently objectified all this in figures of myself, which were the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself.

  

  Frida Kahlo
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Real

• I had to make different kinds of music for everybody but still keep it classic T-Pain at the same time.

  

  T-Pain
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Beginning
  • News
  • Lie

• I admire tremendously those people who work consistently at the same jobs.

  

  Hayley Mills
  • People
  • Work
  • Admire

• It's an advantage having a limited output. When George Gershwin is asked to play his repertoire, he plays all evening. I just play 'Lady Play Your Mandolin' and I'm through.

  

  Oscar Levant