Dan Levitan Quotes
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I made a lot of money, and I want to give something back to my country.
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If we don't end war, war will end us.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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Accept loss forever.
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I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
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One of the great responsibilities we have as a society is to educate ourselves, along with the next generation, about which substances are worth ingesting, and for what purpose, and which are not.
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
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I learned that instead of relying on and imitating American music, there is a better chance for an Asian artist to succeed if he or she follows his or her own culture.
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Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.
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I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
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I'm very independent.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'
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I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.
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Viola Davis is a perfect example of somebody who's so much better than the parts she has the opportunity to play.
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You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings.
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When you're a kid you're already trying to create your own world and organize the one in front of you, but then you get all insecure around 6th grade and don't think you have a right to share that.
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I'm a pro-horserace guy.
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After Versace was murdered, the first person to call me was Mandela.
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It's a terrible poison, writing.
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As a young boy growing up in rural India, most of what I knew of the world was what I could see around me. But each night, I would look at the Moon - it was impossibly far away, yet it held a special attraction because it allowed me to dream beyond my village and country, and think about the rest of the world and space.
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I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.
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We aren't going to let our first investment be the best.
