Sam Levenson Quotes
Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.
Quotes to Explore
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Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
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The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.
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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
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I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.
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My parents got to see all my hard work pay off.
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
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I used to watch 'Top of the Pops' when I was a kid and say 'Yeah!' or 'Boo!' at every single song. So there was nothing in the middle. You brutally put it on one side or another.
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My parents never got carried away with the extraneous elements of being in the business.
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I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.
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My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me.
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When I was born here in Gulfport in 1966, my parents' interracial marriage was still illegal, and it was very hard to drive around town with my parents, to be out in public with my parents.
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My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.
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My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger people live longer than their parents. And they know more. My dad used to tell me he ate the hog from his rooter to his tooter. So do I when I'm not trying to lose weight.
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My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.
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My parents always supported me and complimented me on other things, not just my looks. They told me I was capable, that I was smart, that I was creative.
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To be honest, I don't even exactly know how to set up a Google alert. My brother has me on Google alert. So do my parents. But I'm not even sure how it works.
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I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him.
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My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature.
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My parents were very unusual people, but it was more valuable to have other people say that than me.
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It's different today than it was then. In those days we were strictly amateurs. If I had wanted to stay in for the '80 Olympics, my parents couldn't have afforded it.
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We are increasingly open to understanding how we are all connected and that if we sink the ship that we are all on, we all drown. However, we have simultaneously become so focused on our own life experiences that we think we are alone.
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But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.
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Shrews are made, not born.
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Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.
