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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When you're 21, you think, 'Oh God, when I'm 36, oh God, that's nearly 40 and I'll look really old and wrinkly by then.' And actually, I quite like the way I look.
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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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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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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 like the mentality that comes with rich Russian men. Because they have money, they think they can buy a woman - and they do.
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I don't believe in God.
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Definition: Alpinism is the art of going through the mountains confronting the greatest dangers with the biggest of cares. What we call art here, is the application of a knowledge to an action.
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In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.
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The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle.
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One of my life's principles is to develop myself to the maximum of my potential in all ways and to help others do the same.
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It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is the meaning of committees. But the real work must always be done by one or two men.
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Reducing parables to a single meaning destroys their aesthetic as well as ethical potential.
