Jonathan Levine Quotes
To me, using music is creating a shorthand with an audience. And I love music so much.
Quotes to Explore
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I know what to do and I go and execute.
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What goes for sex goes double for politics.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.
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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
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When I finished the trilogy of 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies, I had a gear shift and thought, 'I need to take a moment to smell the roses.'
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The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.
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Hold the door for a lady. Wait until a lady is out of the elevator.
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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The most frequently asked question I hear first-time entrepreneurs ask is, 'How do I know when to launch my product?' The answer, more often than not, should be: 'Now!'
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The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
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My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
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People on the lower rungs are more vulnerable to sexual harassment than those at the top.
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Spielberg knows his craft so well, he can also improvise, and that is a lot of fun.
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'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a great book.
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It infuriates me that stuff from the Internet routinely doesn't include all the credits. Because as soon as I listen to something, if I like it, I want to know, "Who's the bass player?" "Who did that?" "Who's the engineer on this?
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To me, using music is creating a shorthand with an audience. And I love music so much.
