Samm Levine Quotes
I did stand-up for a good number of years while I was still living in New York, and those people primarily knew me as 'the kid stand-up.'
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
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I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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I grew up being a dancer, so I was always doing some sort of dance number, like the Tornado in 'The Wiz.'
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
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I have only a few really enviable skills, but packing - condensing just the right amount of stuff into a single bag, whether the trip is for a weekend or, as in this case, seven weeks - is one of them.
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We are in a democracy, and I think for all issues, whatever matters that the opposition may have apprehension on, there is a forum, and it is called Parliament.
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I have only so many foreign-language neurons. When I learned Spanish, that displaced whatever Irish was left, and then I learned German, and that displaced the Spanish, and when I learned Serbo-Croatian, that displaced the German. So I'm a bit of a muddle.
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Families are families. We've all got them, more or less, and we all know what it's like to be bullied by another generation.
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People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.
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It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was a long time they had it, but they were put from it at last.
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But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
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We encourage the growth of women's hockey.
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The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.
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I went through a phase when I was watching a lot of foreign films, just itching to get out of the suburbs and explore.
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I think I'm a good dad. It's hard. Ultimately, it's our kids that have the final word. So we'll have to ask them.
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But when you come right down to it, the reason that we did this job is because it was an organic necessity. If you are a scientist you cannot stop such a thing. If you are a scientist you believe that it is good to find out how the world works; that it is good to find out what the realities are; that it is good to turn over to mankind at large the greatest possible power to control the world and to deal with it according to its lights and values. Regarding the atomic bomb project.
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The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.
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I did stand-up for a good number of years while I was still living in New York, and those people primarily knew me as 'the kid stand-up.'
