Joseph Gordon-Levitt Quotes
The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.
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I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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In grownups, mercury can cause memory loss, tremors, vision loss and numbness of the fingers and toes. It can also adversely affect fertility and blood pressure regulation, and a growing body of evidence suggests that exposure to mercury may lead to heart disease.
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One of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a workshop was, imagine this pipe, and you've got valves, solenoid valves, taps, opening and closing. You create like a water curtain with pixels made of water. If those pixels fall, you can write on it: you can show patterns, images, text.
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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I love painting so much that nothing else matters.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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Talent survives and remains while beauty is diluted.
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Sports should not become routine. It should be about passion.
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When I'm not painting, I'm Oujia-boarding with my photos. I'll sort through my pictures, put them in different folders, and come back months later to one in particular and try to figure out why I took it.
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You know, I've never done karaoke, ever. It makes me nervous - I think it's the lack of the guitar and just a microphone.
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China's own recent history proves that when it opens itself, there is nothing its people cannot accomplish. A more open China will lead to a more prosperous and stable China. That's good for China, the United States and, indeed, the entire world.
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It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.
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I think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They're here to criticize all of us. That's just how it is. We as MC's criticize each other. That's the nature of hip-hop.
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The odds of having films made which star women... Everyone still references one movie: 'Bridesmaids!'
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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It never became an obsession for me to score at all costs. I've always said that I'm not a big scorer, I'm a worker.
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All that I know is nothing - I'm not even sure of that.
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Do you know what Bill Gates has to pull out of an old coat, to feel like I did with a $20 bill? First of all, the idea that Bill Gates has an old coat is preposterous. If he has an old coat, it's the coat Abe Lincoln was shot in and he wears it as a bathrobe - no underwear by the way. He lets his billionaire balls swing willy-nilly beneath the death cloak of the great emancipator. That's your 1%.
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Commercial directing felt like a very natural transition from my comedy, sketch, music video directing experience.
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I know of no American who starts from a higher level of aspiration than the journalist. . . . He plans to be both an artist and a moralist -- a master of lovely words and merchant of sound ideas. He ends, commonly, as the most depressing jackass of his community -- that is, if his career goes on to what is called a success.
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The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.
