Amy-Jill Levine Quotes
Reducing parables to a single meaning destroys their aesthetic as well as ethical potential.
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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
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My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with incrementally as they try to become more productive over time.
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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
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My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'
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There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.
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There was a windstorm in L.A., and the morning after there was no smog, and I could see the mountains. And I was like... 'There's mountains? Snowcap mountains?' That's insane; I've been there for thirteen years, and I've never seen that view before, seeing the mountains in the distance.
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
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I'm still awaiting the idea of drawing comics for a living being a reality. I feel like I've been dodging work for 20 years, and at some point, I'll have to get a real job.
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I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.
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In the United Kingdom, we need to promote an inclusive British identity that involves and empowers people from all ethnic and faith backgrounds.
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In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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While I am not saying Facebook cannot be a wonderland for marketers, I am still waiting to see the proof of it, and so should every reporter.
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Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.
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I don't believe in God.
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When I started out, it was rare to see elected representatives with foreign roots. Often, I was relegated to my origins, put in the diversity box: 'You're the new face of diversity.' That annoyed me because I always felt French, and suddenly I was being made to feel I wan't as French as others.
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Sheikh Hasina's government is one of the best Bangladesh has ever had. She is taking action against fundamentalists. But even she refused to let me return. I don't think I can ever return home.
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It is of the highest importance to provide equal access to the labour market. Governments should act to establish equitable employment standards and penalise racial discrimination.
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Gospel songs to me are about the mansion in the sky, and washed in the blood of Christ's crimson blood, songs that are filled with biblical wording that's no longer understood by a lot of people.
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With Ferrari sometimes, you win or you lose depending on what the mood of the team in general, of the group in general.
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If people will pay to see it, I'll fight anyone in any sport.
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You have to concentrate on the swing.
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Networked science has the potential to speed up dramatically the rate of discovery across all of science.
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Reducing parables to a single meaning destroys their aesthetic as well as ethical potential.
