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?
Quotes to Explore
-
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
-
Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
-
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.
-
When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.
-
I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.
-
To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.
-
In high school and college, I did not have any Christian friends except my best friend Sarah, who I actually 'brought to Jesus.'
-
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.
-
The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
-
Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.
-
He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.
-
I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.
-
I didn't think then, and I still don't, that I was actually sick.
-
Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.
-
With a focus on records and making money, you tend to miss a good story.
-
When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
-
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.
-
Most people marry their mother. I married my father.
-
What I worry about ultimately is that when we're stripped of our privacy, when we're stripped of free will, when we start to merge with machines in a more robust way, at some point, we'll cease to be identifiably human. And therefore, I think our humanity is, in some ways, the thing that's under existential threat.
-
And time for reflection with colleagues is for me a lifesaver; it is not just a nice thing to do if you have the time. It is the only way you can survive.
-
Sometimes what I think what the news is missing is the human element, the connection - the moment that you look into a little girl's eyes or a father who has just left his family and risked everything just to try and survive.
-
If you did not care at all what anyone else thought about you, what would you do differently or change in your life?
-
It is the Father's life, and the Father's life alone, that ever lives the Christian life. It is the Father's life, and Father's life alone, which will live the Christian life in you. Embrace a formula or a list in order to "live the Christian life," and you are doomed to frustration.
-
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?
