Ezra G. Levin Quotes
Members of Congress care about reelection most of all. And that means they care about their constituents. So you have to be a constituent to make your voice heard.
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And so it was interesting for me to find myself very enamored of a Republican president, but Ronald Reagan was someone I thought captured the spirit of America.
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I grew up in New York and have lived here all my life. I think it's the best city in the world and can write about it with gusto and fervor and passion.
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The thing about dating someone who listens to a totally different genre than you is they can help you find things to appreciate in that genre.
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If we can provide even a few months of early warning for just one pandemic, the benefits will outweigh all the time and energy we're devoting. Imagine preventing health crises, not just responding to them.
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Love means a lot to me, and I love loving, and I love boys.
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We go along, without a fixed itinerary, yet at the same time with an end (what end?) in mind, and with the aim of reaching the end. A search for the end, a dread of the end: the obverse and the reverse of the same act.
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To be honest, I am somebody that, as long as I have a character, it doesn't really matter if it's comedy or drama - I think timing is important in either. But for me, it's all about having a character to work on.
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Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.
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My dad is an unbelievable entrepreneur who balanced his life as a father and a president of two very successful companies.
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I always would dream of making music videos. Whenever I make music, I always have a visual in my mind. I always see things.
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I love playing a woman suffering, thinking about the choices that she's made and obviously wanting more. It's classic.
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You seen my shows; I bring the 'hood out.
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I am a classic 'Star Trek' fanatic.
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The universe, when you leave it alone, is going to be beautiful.
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It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.
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On the one hand, Porto Monenegro is shape-shifting - it replaced a naval shipyard with a new marina - but it's also mind-shifting, opening up an array of other small business opportunities. And this shape-shifting and mind-shifting, it is exactly what we're trying to do in Montenegro.
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There are very few things in the body that nitric oxide doesn't regulate.
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My first mentor and inspiration was my Irish Dancing teacher Patricia Mulholland. She created her own form of dance known as Irish ballet and created stage productions of old Irish myths and legends. They were my first experiences on stage. She told my mum I was destined for the stage, and I took that as my cue.
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Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
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I think the voice is an underrated instrument these days and it's easy to make up for lack of ability with effects. I think sometimes people are more wowed with effects than core craftsmanship. Strong voices are not as common as they used to be.
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I don't believe in men who make us feel unhappy, because they're boys, not men.
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Writing the history of the present is always a very different thing from writing the history of the distant past. The history of the distant past depends entirely on literary and documentary sources; the history of the present always involves unwritten material as well as documents. But the difference was much greater in the days of Thucydides than it is now.
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Members of Congress care about reelection most of all. And that means they care about their constituents. So you have to be a constituent to make your voice heard.
