Steven Levitt (Steven David "Steve" Levitt) Quotes

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• When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Up
  • Me
  • Games

• I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Trying
  • Truth
  • Small

• Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • Today
  • Europe
  • Closer

• Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Know

• I found that if I don't paint for around a week, I get practically suicidal. It took a long time to figure out why I had these mood swings, and I finally figured out it's because I haven't painted.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Time
  • Long
  • Why

• I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew.

  

  Hafez
  • God
  • Myself
  • Christian

• I love to tease men with my legs.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Men
  • Love
  • Tease

• I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!

  

  Pat Morita
  • Remember
  • You
  • Write

• We didn't move to L.A. to move to L.A. We moved to make music with Muggs.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Music
  • Move
  • Moved

• The watchdog's voice that bayed the whispering wind,And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Mind
  • Wind

• There’s so much goodness there, and such a value placed on education, which is sort of universal among Jews around the world. I appreciate that obviously, to be a part of that.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • World
  • Education
  • Value

• An honest man nearly always thinks justly.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• I actually don't trust anyone who tells me they don't like New York.

  

  Clemence Poesy
  • Trust

• I always know what time it is.

  

  Jenny Han
  • Time

• I don't feel very glowing, especially after wearing makeup - and not necessarily my choice of makeup - for 12 hours straight on a movie set. When I'm playing a character, her look is sometimes different from my own.

  

  Jessica Biel
  • Different
  • Character
  • Movie

• I wanted to have a creative director crazy enough to say, 'Sure, I'll do a collection in five days.'

  

  Marco Bizzarri
  • Crazy

• I learned at a young age what chasing flavors meant, and I've been doing that my whole life.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Life
  • Age

• My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Life
  • Joke
  • Choke

• I was never great, but I was a good [basketball] player, and I could play seriously. Now I'm like one of these old guys who's running around, and the guys I play with, who are all a lot younger, they sort of pity me and sympathize with me. They tolerate me, but we all know that I'm the weak link on the court. And I don't like being the weak link.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • Great
  • Running

• If you're writing songs by yourself, who's going to tell you if it's good or not? But if you're writing songs with somebody else, you get that immediate feedback.

  

  Glenn Frey The Eagles
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Song

• I think I did in the sense that there's a whole generation coming up behind us that was engaged, inspired, worked for change during the course of my presidency, saw what was possible. And that generation, it's coming.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Inspired

• Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Country
  • Soul

• When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe.

  

  Plato
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Trained

• The key to learning is feedback. It is nearly impossible to learn anything without it.

  

  Steven Levitt
  • Learning
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