Alison Levine Quotes
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.
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Everything we do, even the slightest thing we do, can have a ripple effect and repercussions that emanate. If you throw a pebble into the water on one side of the ocean, it can create a tidal wave on the other side.
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I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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I believe that as an entertainer, you're only as good as your audience and the people who support you.
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I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.
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Bailing out every bank that fails makes the system riskier, not safer.
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Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
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I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.
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When you're CEO, you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job.
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I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.
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When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.
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Great teams argue. Not in a mean-spirited or personal way, but they disagree when important decisions are made.
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Love of, and respect for, the humble routine of everyday life and its creatures was the only moral commandment which carried conviction when I was a child.
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We must put together countries that produce drugs, countries that traffic, and countries that consume, and through this multilateral effort really stop the growing of crime.
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The music I desire must be supple enough to adapt itself to the lyrical effusions of the soul and the fantasy of dreams.
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I've seen Congress do some remarkable things within a short period of time.
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A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.
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I guess I'm interested in pushing the boundaries of the cello without giving up on the idea of playing the cello, if that makes any sense. I have no real interest in putting the cello through different effects to make it sound like a guitar or other instruments.
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The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.
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Don't ever underestimate the importance of treating others with respect and kindness.
