Oscar Levant Quotes
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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Discipline is not a nasty word.
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I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
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Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
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If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels.
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I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.
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Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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I think everyone evolves over the years, but I have always had the silhouette that I know suits me. I am never going to wear a frothy, poufy thing that sticks out because I have found a style that works for me, and I stick with it.
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?
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We all come from a woman. We have to make love.
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When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both it's health, you worry about getting rupture or something. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.
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It will shock many - I've lived a full life and really enjoyed my time as a pop star.
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Humans should always exercise and watch what they eat. So with your pet, make sure they get enough exercise, make sure they're getting fed at the same time every day and getting the nutrition they need. And make sure they get a lot of love and attention you both need. That's why you have them!
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Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.
