Andrea Levy Quotes
We went up and up into the heavens until people were just dots below us. As we hung right at the top-the twinkling electric lights below mingling with the stars-Father said something I will never forget. He said, 'See here, Queenie. Look around. You've got the whole world at your feet, lass.
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Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.
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Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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I think that, as a white person stepping into doing any sort of anti-systematic-racism type of work, asking yourself, 'What is your intention?' needs to happen on a consistent basis. Check yourself. Check yourself. Check yourself, like, constantly.
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
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I wake when my wife wakes, at 7:30 A.M. I'd like to sleep longer, but she has to go off to work, and I'd be plagued with guilt.
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God has just given me such an amazing journey and able to play; it's been so much fun. I'm having a blast!
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I remember working with Rod, though, on Chrysler Hour. I was too young and dumb to know that I was supposed to be scared of anybody or anything - like getting fired or anything like that.
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Often the remedy is deemed the highest good because it helps so many.
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I have no television - I hate it.
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In 1999, I just came out of putting out the song 'Vivrant Thing' and 'Breathe and Stop' off the 'Amplified' album. Clive Davis signed me to Arista.
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It is important to realize that the market economy, though it is associated historically with the rise of modern private capitalism, is as a mechanism not necessarily limited to that system.
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It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.
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I had become monomaniacal about DNA only in 1951 when I had just turned 23 and as a postdoctoral fellow was temporarily in Naples attending a small May meeting on biologically important macromolecules.
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The whole reason I did a bodybuilding show was to see how far I could push my own discipline. It was the hardest thing I've ever done. When I made the switch to acting, I was able to break that down into small, measurable goals like I did with bodybuilding.
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The only duty an artist has is in the quality of the art. There is no moral obligation to denounce. An artist confronted with a tremendous injustice sometimes feels inclined to say something. Denouncing the situation is the artist's choice.
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So I think what you see in this show is it's really not a just world at all, but you get what you give. So in terms of world view, I would say that's where the differences lie.
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Public life has many more privileges than hardships.
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I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella.
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We went up and up into the heavens until people were just dots below us. As we hung right at the top-the twinkling electric lights below mingling with the stars-Father said something I will never forget. He said, 'See here, Queenie. Look around. You've got the whole world at your feet, lass.
