Joseph Gordon-Levitt Quotes

Darkness is a lot of what art is and certainly in our community a lot of it is people sort of wrestling with their demons.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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• Wrestling
• Demons

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• I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.

  

  T.I.
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• Blip.tv is growing its audience by forming partnerships with traditional TV manufacturers and a new breed of company in the set-top box market that lets consumers connect to the Internet via their televisions.

  

  Adam Ostrow
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• When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.

  

  Tariq Ali
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• Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

  

  Irvin S. Cobb
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• The efficiency, credibility, and liquidity of the financial markets have been foundational to the largest economy in the world.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • World
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• The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
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• Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • People
  • Bad
  • Day

• Because of my job, I get a lot of opportunity to grab a few days here and there in many cool cities for press commitments, magazine shoots and premieres - Barcelona, Madrid, Rome, Paris, Stockholm, New York, Berlin. I always try to get to a gallery or museum if there's time.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Time
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• I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Day
  • Joy
  • Thought

• Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • People
  • Community
  • Respect

• If you look over the course of a hundred years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that's held our country together is probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Country
  • Together
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• I love doing crosswords, it's so important to keep the brain going.

  

  Magnus Magnusson
  • Important
  • Brain
  • Keep

• You know me, I'm not that kind of person that cares to unveil all of my personal things to the world because frankly, in terms of my soccer, it doesn't matter.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Me
  • Soccer

• In the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been. That... was the start of a radical alteration in my whole outlook about 'white men.'

  

  Malcolm X
  • World
  • Men
  • Start

• We got bigger, much scarier competitors. We ended up with Microsoft, a company with all the money in the world, the way I look at those guys. And IBM, another company that, historically, dwarfed us.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Up
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• My parents led this double life. They were in the underground movement to bring down the Nazis. My father was hanged for being a traitor.

  

  Veruschka von Lehndorff
  • Life
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• It's interesting because what I do and what I sing is, to other people, pretty unique. I feel I'm creating my own path... and I'm working on growing as a performer.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Interesting

• I have to say, as a young woman of color, and this may sound controversial, in sci-fi, anything is possible. In sci-fi I can belong to the military. In sci-fi I can have an interracial love affair; I can be a revolutionary.

  

  Kandyse McClure
  • Woman
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• Biot, who assisted Laplace in revising it [The Mécanique Céleste] for the press, says that Laplace himself was frequently unable to recover the details in the chain of reasoning, and if satisfied that the conclusions were correct, he was content to insert the constantly recurring formula, 'Il est àisé a voir' [it is easy to see].

  

  W. W. Rouse Ball
  • Science
  • Easy
  • Details

• So, in the course of events, I had an opportunity to come in contact with Colin Matthews, through the Rex Foundation sponsoring recordings of various music that was being recorded over there.

  

  Phil Lesh Grateful Dead
  • Music
  • Opportunity

• People are so afraid to say the word 'comic'. It makes you think of a grown man with pimples, a ponytail and a big belly. Change it to 'graphic novel' and that disappears.

  

  Marjane Satrapi
  • People

• Here I came to the very edge where nothing at all needs saying, everything is absorbed through weather and the sea, and the moon swam back, its rays all silvered, and time and again the darkness would be broken by the crash of a wave, and every day on the balcony of the sea, wings open, fire is born, and everything is blue again like morning.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Time
  • Day
  • Darkness

• I never thought my first role in a film would be a grandmother.

  

  Sasha Pivovarova
  • Film
  • Grandmother
  • Role

• Darkness is a lot of what art is and certainly in our community a lot of it is people sort of wrestling with their demons.

  

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt
  • Darkness
  • Wrestling
  • Demons