Jonathan Levine Quotes
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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It's important for American soldiers to be culturally sensitive when deployed in foreign countries. But it's just as important for the U.S. never to renounce the most fundamental American values, which, after all, are also universal values.
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I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.
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My reward in life for growing up a little bit was that Mary Steenburgen came into my life, and we have been together for 19 years.
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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
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If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
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I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.
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In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
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Some people like having eyes upon them and I don't.
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So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
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I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
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I've always been a reader and a writer.
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A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.
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The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
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Food can bring people together in a way nothing else could.
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I always try to live in the moment.
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I can't bring out something I've already worn. I want to make sure I don't look down. I want people to say, 'Man, he looks good'.
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The greatest thing about siblings is you constantly have someone putting you in check; there's no room to get delusional about yourself.
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I am a person that believes in different emotions with music. Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.
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I put a lot of time and energy and thought behind what I do and the characters that I create, and I don't want to do anything peripheral that is going to make an audience see me up there on the screen rather than who I'm playing.
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I really like it when movies take a song and use it to counterpoint a scene.
