Jonathan Levine Quotes
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Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and we'll be sitting on clouds playing harps. The ultimate future that we're promised is much more interesting than that. It's new heavens and a new Earth with new bodies to live in.
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
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For a very long time now I've been saying to young women, 'You can have it all, but not all at the same time.' How important it is to take very good care of yourself, of your mental and physical and spiritual wellbeing; it's hard to do. It's easier to be a workaholic than to have a truly balanced life.
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When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
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I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.
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I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.
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I don't think that women need to smell interesting.
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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What came up at age 49 is I realized that of all the things I'm interested in, the thing I'm most interested in is figuring out what makes people tick, why people think the way they do, why they act the way they do. And I realized that music is such a great way to investigate why people do what they do.
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Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.
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The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.
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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act scripting and where to put the reversal and all of that - and I think we can do more interesting narratives.
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If two people were exactly alike, one of them would be unnecessary.
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It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.
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The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
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When I wear the hat of management, it is important that our management behaves and conducts as management accountable to the board.
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I have a closet full of blazers and more striped shirts than any human could possibly wear. Somehow I think that I don't have striped shirts, and then I look at my closet and go, 'Oh, I have ten.' But then you always end up with your favourite striped shirt of the moment, and you don't end up wearing any of the other ones.
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There are many prejudices about art, and first among them is that it is a skill and that there are definite rules.
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When one gets reports from scientists, engineers and technicians whose credibility by all common standards is high and whose moral caliber seems to preclude a hoax, one can do no less than hear them out, in all seriousness.
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I'm coming into places with some people who just want to hear what I did before, with some people who want to hear me with a band, but I am just at the moment sticking to my guns and saying, 'You know what? I want you just to hear this for a minute. I want it to be in the context of me and a guitar.'
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The moon does not think to be reflected, nor does the water think to reflect, in the Hirosawa Pond.
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I used to drive a convertible around L.A. a lot.
