Jonathan Levine Quotes
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I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
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Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
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When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.
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I feel like I've been the star of my own show for a while now. I was always putting on shows as a kid, and obviously, my household was really creative.
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But we cannot rely on foreign help indefinitely.
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The problem was just a mean attitude that festers and has to be challenged.
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Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.
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I've kept my phone on silent for a year and a half. For me, it's too much noise. It's not my jam. I like to keep things a lot more easygoing. The world's not going to stop if you don't pick up your phone.
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The only study that the federal government has engaged in with a vengeance is in trying to see if they can make women fertile after menopause.
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One of the things you learn in rehab is that you're responsible for your own actions.
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With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later proved not to be guilty of the crime.
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We want to take care of our employees, because they take care of our family.
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I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's just what I like to do, I should say.
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If Pocahontas had been given the foresight to see what devastating consequences her actions and belief in the possibility of peace would have brought upon her people, I wonder if she would have avoided befriending the English or not.
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From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to flourish under the greatest of systems - democracy.
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I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.
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The Vatican is like a huge kind of magician's club. The more you look into it the more awful it becomes. And they're laughing at us. That's when I get angry.
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When loved ones die, people always say, “Don't be sad. I'm sure they would have wanted you to be happy.” I'm sure that's true. But let's be realistic here, people also want to be missed. It is every person's nightmare to leave the world behind as if they had never been there at all.
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As a person in the public eye, I have always felt that if I have the good fortune of being able to shed a spotlight on different causes that I feel passionately about...
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I've never formally trained in acting, so I'm very instinctual and visceral with decisions.
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Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.
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Usually, the kills are almost Wile E. Coyote kind of things in horror movies.
