Samm Levine Quotes
I was a stand-up comedian for 10 years, if you can believe it. And I gave it up at age 22.
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As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.
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The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.
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When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.
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New Yorkers - the people are so honest. If you're sucking on stage, they'll let you know.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.
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I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there.
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I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.
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People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
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Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.
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Getting a degree, being on Sesame Street... those were like real accomplishments to me.
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No doubt, corporate CEOs who lie to their shareholders and politicians who lie to their public know and believe intellectually that lying is immoral. Why then do they lie? They lie to others because they first lie to themselves.
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It was traumatic for my children to see the British army en masse coming into our home and searching the house. I recall on one occasion, when our home was raided, my youngest son was standing at the top of the stairs - he would probably have been only three years of age - in his pyjamas. The soldiers came up the stairs, and he peed himself.
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I believe that the pursuit of truth and right ideas through honest debate and rigorous argument is a noble undertaking.
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I was a stand-up comedian for 10 years, if you can believe it. And I gave it up at age 22.
