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 father always taught me to appreciate what you're fortunate to have and give back to those who need it. No part of our society is more important than the children, especially the ones who need our help.
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In my day, when you called on a girl, her mother was always hollering down to see if she was still unraped, the maid would look in, her father would shuffle his feet in another room. Today the boy calls up, says, 'Meet you at the back door of Stern's.'
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If a married couple with children has fifteen minutes of uninterrupted, non-logistical, non-problem-solving talk every day, I would put them in the top 5% of all married couples. It's an extraordinary achievement.
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I fight manic-depression, and I have been able to live battling that sadness that I get sometimes.
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Extreme nationalism and Bolshevism have broken up the old world, a new world is in the making. It is literally true that old things are passing away; all things may become new, granted we have wise, unselfish, and determined guides.
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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?
