Carl Levin Quotes
We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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There are so many Muslim women that feel like they don't fit society's standard of beauty. I just wanted to tell them it's OK to be different; being different is beautiful, too.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.
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I always had career goals. And I figured out a path I wanted to take to accomplish those goals. If that meant calling the best modeling agency in the world, that's what it meant.
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You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.
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I love being in a courtroom.
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The life of an entrepreneur is the life of a human. Some days are amazing. Some days are a struggle. A lot are in between. It's the same for all of us.
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Borders are the worst invention ever made by politicians.
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I work a lot in the summers. My family goes to Maine, where we have a little house. My wife's a writer, too, and we can write for six hours a day and then play with the kids.
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The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.
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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.
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We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.
