Ezra G. Levin Quotes
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Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for.
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It was the only thing I had to do. I worked to get rid of the time, even now I work for something to do. Painting is a wonderful way of getting rid of the days.
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Least doers are the greatest boasters.
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I stroke her lightly, memorizing her body. I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin. I lie motionless, savoring the feeling of her body against mine. I'm afraid to breathe in case I break the spell.
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The one continuing problem in my life has always had the shape of just one question: What amusing thing can I do next?
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One thing that's important to point out is that this kind of populism has a long and mixed history. It's part of this tradition of problematic anti-elitism where the elites are always the liberal class - the intellectuals, the professors, the artists - and not the economic elites. Why are we so mad and aggrieved at newspaper editors but not at corporate executives? I think we need to look more at the latter, at economic elites.
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What we need to do is take that inchoate sense that something isn't right and give it a structural component and the sense that things can be another way.
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We will never recognize the usurper Zionist government and will continue our jihad-like movement until the liberation of Jerusalem.
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One of the makeup artists once dyed my dog blue with vegetable blue.
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I'm always "shopping," because I think it's important to know what's out there.
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I have two favorite colors - white and yellow. White makes me feel light and airy. Yellow makes me happy.
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Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
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No country in the world is going to recognize that Ariel and Maaleh Adumim and Beit El are a sovereign part of Israel.
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The nurses were all angels in my eyes.
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I'm my own person. You can't generalise about people.
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But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process.
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Every piece has its own identity which we develop by the rule 'We know no limits.' We follow the inspiration of the moment and don't worry if what we're playing is alternative, progressive or fusion rock.
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Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covered before, only higher up; as we look down the winding stair below us we measure our progress by the number of places where we were but no longer are. The journey is both repetitious and progressive; we go both round and upward.
