Sam Levenson Quotes
When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?
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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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Turkey, a powerful and reliable ally of the U.S. through the Cold War, appears to be coming unmoored from Europe and the West and is becoming increasingly sectarian, autocratic, and nationalistic.
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When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.
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I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.
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To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.
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In high school and college, I did not have any Christian friends except my best friend Sarah, who I actually 'brought to Jesus.'
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Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.
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He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.
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I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.
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I didn't think then, and I still don't, that I was actually sick.
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Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.
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With a focus on records and making money, you tend to miss a good story.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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I don't read newspapers, and I've said I don't watch the news. I love books, but I don't read much. What I do is I get people to read to me, and I put the stories in my head.
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Most people marry their mother. I married my father.
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My spiritual evolution I would describe as journey from literalism to figuratism. I now see all religious texts as pointing to an ineffable truth.
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The biggest challenge of being a pastry chef is that, unlike other types of chefs, you can't throw things together at a farmer's market. When you're working with baking powder and a formula, you have to be exact. If not, things can go wrong.
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I have accumulated so many experiences, so much, that I want to be able to realize so many things. This is why I have basically given up most of my positions.
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Everybody around me was talented and gave everybody talent. Everybody painted. My mother had a beautiful voice. My father was a marvelous drawing-room actor.
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I see an insidious problem in the marketing of weddings as 'the happiest day of your life.' The pressure that is placed upon this event to be the alpha and omega of your entire existence makes it, I think, into a kind of nuptial New Year's Eve, and we all know how that usually turns out.
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When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?
