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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Families survive the Terrible Twos because toddlers aren't strong enough to kill with their hands and aren't capable of using lethal weapons. A 2-year-old with the physical capacities of an adult would be terrifying.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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The first step to get this noble and manly steadiness, is... carefully keep children from frights of all kinds, when they are young. ...Instances of such who in a weak timorous mind, have borne, all their whole lives through, the effects of a fright when they were young, are every where to be seen, and therefore as much as may be to be prevented.
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You have to be very careful about what you say. More importantly, you have to be very careful about what you do. You never know how or when you influence people – especially children.
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The happiest times in my life were the days when I was traveling with Les Brown and his band.
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Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.
