Jonathan Levine Quotes

In rehearsals, I like to create an honest environment that is kinda free and fun.

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• At school, I'd refuse to take part in biology lessons when animals were being dissected. One time, the teacher announced that we would be gassing worms. So I ran around the room, gathered up all the worms and set them free in the fields. I just loved animals and couldn't bear the thought of them suffering.

  

  Imelda May
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • People
  • Good
  • Fun

• To people of my generation, the picture show was really another dimension - sensual, whimsical. No uniforms or collective rites, but a place where little boys like me could laugh and feel free.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • People
  • Free
  • Picture

• As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Truth

• I don't like doing the same material over and over again. It's not fun.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Fun
  • Doing
  • Again

• Everybody knows what I represent. My message is that Israel wants peace, and I am going to do everything possible to find ways to get this peace, this objective of all our people. All of us want peace. The differences are about the conditions of this peace.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • People
  • Peace
  • Israel

• Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Way
  • Humor
  • Incredible

• I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Free
  • Hate
  • Idea

• Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Simple
  • Quality
  • Environment

• When you take on something like your footprint on the environment, you have to say, 'Where am I going to draw the circle around my level of responsibility and then where do I assume that others will take responsibility?'

  

  Sally Jewell
  • You
  • Responsibility
  • Environment

• If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Hate

• I'm just not somebody who can sit around doing nothing, and all of us in the Foo Fighters have our own things outside of the band. I'm not going to use the cliche that those outlets bring us back fresh and with new ideas, but what I will say is that it keeps us all feeling free - and that creative freedom is a very positive thing.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Feeling

• I had a free-range childhood. We lived in town but with a cow, chooks, bees, and multiple veggie gardens so we could live self-sufficiently.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Live
  • Free
  • Childhood

• Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Important
  • Free
  • Fair

• My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Believe
  • Hope
  • Free

• I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Believe
  • Free
  • Government

• Home life is a foreign environment for most guys. So it's natural to show them being idiots at home.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Life
  • Home
  • Environment

• Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • May
  • You
  • Environment

• We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Live
  • May
  • Teacher

• I want to inflict some change on people.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • People

• Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Art

• And one of the rules of good civil society I believe is that you’re respectful of the people who disagree with you. And that's part of what makes civil society work. If you can have civil disagreements, and you can listen to each other and not just shout, that's what creates an environment that leads to progress over the long term.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Yeah, obviously we use vampires as a metaphor for something else, something deeper than just the supernatural. But there's just something about the bloodsucking walking dead, that can say so much to people. There are really so many people trying to get control over you on a daily basis and steal your soul in some way, take a part of you.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Soul
  • Use
  • Metaphor

• In rehearsals, I like to create an honest environment that is kinda free and fun.

  

  Jonathan Levine
  • Fun
  • Free
  • Environment