Sam Levenson Quotes
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During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.
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How do people move on after they've lost the love of their life? It's a really interesting thing to look at. It happens to people every day: you see people... even in the worst, most war-torn places, people get up and continue with their lives. And it's a fascinating thing about human nature. That ability to just continue on.
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Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.
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After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.
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I don't think I am evangelical in my work.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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I love the process of acting, and to turn your passion into a career is the biggest gift.
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What's considered ideal in Hollywood is completely different than anywhere else in the world. I don't think you can aspire to it, nor can I. Everybody is retouched, stretched, lengthened, slimmed and trimmed. I could look at a picture of myself from the past and think, 'Why don't I look like that now?' It's because I never have!
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I want to do whatever I can to survive.
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Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy.
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I've made these films, and I'm really proud, but my lifestyle hasn't changed.
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I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other.
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L.A.'s not a good place to grow old.
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If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.
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Many are called but few get up.
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Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.
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We ought to be able to forgo the constant need to raise money and just focus on working together to solve the problems this country faces.
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Of course, a movie is in constant flux.
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My resolution, standing with the vast majority of Americans who know we can and must be safer, is to cede no ground to those who would convince us the path is too steep, or we too weak.
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'You', the ego, live in your left brain. When we say that man is the only creature who spends 99 per cent of his time inside his own head, we mean, in fact, inside his left cerebral hemisphere. And in the basement of the left hemisphere is the library full of filing cabinets - the stuffy room that we mistake for reality.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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How happily, said Austerlitz, have I sat over a book in the deepening twilight until I could no longer make out the words and my mind began to wander, and how secure have I felt seated at the desk in my house in the dark night, just watching the tip of my pencil in the lamplight following its shadow, as if of its own accord and with perfect fidelity, while that shadow moved regularly from left to right, line by line, over the ruled paper.
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Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.
