Jonathan Levine Quotes
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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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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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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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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.
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I am many people. Technique is always the consequence of the dominating concept.. ..with the change of concept, technique will change.
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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.
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My writing practice taught me the important thing is steadfastness. It's not necessarily discipline. Discipline can become a prison. When your spiritual practices become another thing for you to be anxious about, they've lost their usefulness.
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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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The best definition of faith that I know is that it is reason grown courageous. Moreover, that is all that Christ ever asked us for, and the reason he asked us for that was because he wants to use us. He needs our help. It is almost impossible to believe it. But God Almighty wants our help, so Christ tells us.
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Baba Yaga: I've never heard of such a creature. What are his powers? Magic Mirror: He reads. He reads everything.
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Usually, the kills are almost Wile E. Coyote kind of things in horror movies.
