Jonathan Levine Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
-
I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
-
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.
-
But we cannot rely on foreign help indefinitely.
-
The problem was just a mean attitude that festers and has to be challenged.
-
Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.
-
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.
-
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.
-
One of the things you learn in rehab is that you're responsible for your own actions.
-
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.
-
We want to take care of our employees, because they take care of our family.
-
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.
-
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.
-
From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to flourish under the greatest of systems - democracy.
-
I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.
-
Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because there's a passion and there's something to explain to a more mainstream audience, so you get these passionate writers who want to express their love for rap and hip-hop, which is cool.
-
I am many people. Technique is always the consequence of the dominating concept.. ..with the change of concept, technique will change.
-
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.
-
I've been around so long, most editors think I'm dead.
Elliott Erwitt -
Just thinking about that, if that were to really happen, if an alien were to come down and really abduct you, how terrifying and how earth-shattering would that be? Your whole world is just destroyed. God is destroyed. It's kind of a fascinating thing to think about.
-
It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us about the first human being'. We are so self-obsessed with our own history. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
-
Part of what we have to do a better job of, if our democracy is to function in a complicated diverse society like this, is to teach our kids enough critical thinking to be able to sort out what is true and what is false, what is contestable and what is incontestable. And we seem to have trouble with that. And our political system doesn't help.
-
Usually, the kills are almost Wile E. Coyote kind of things in horror movies.
