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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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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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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I always wanted to be an actress. It's been very high up on my list of passions, and I did a couple of short courses, and I've studied at school.
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I'm just not very funny.
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Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land, in any city, at any table, when man has the resources and the scientific know-how to provide all mankind with the basic necessities of life? There is no deficit in human resources. The deficit is in human will.
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The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and now it's happening to the film studios. It's crazy what's going on. But artists should have control of their work; especially if, as I always say, you never turn down a good idea and never take a bad idea.
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It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'
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We came from a small town where there was no music scene or no other bands, and we decided to put ours together and go for it.
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Musicians playing together, it's a conversation, and ideally I want our conversation to be really intriguing and interesting and beautiful.
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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.
