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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Wit is not levelled so much at the muscles as at the heart; and the latter will sometimes smile when there is not a single wrinkle on the cheek.
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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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There were so many stories around, it was almost inevitable some of them would turn out to be true.
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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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There is no excuse for bad manners, except fast reflexes.
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Here's the thing about politics: It's not an expression of your moral purity and your ethics and your probity and your fond dreams of some utopian future. Progressive people constantly fail to get this.
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Mayor De Blasio's appointment of Bill Bratton as police commissioner is the height of hypocrisy. Asking Bratton to stop racial profiling and stop and frisk is like asking an arsonist to help you put out fires. Bratton along with his partner Giuliani started and supported racial profiling stops. A new progressive mayor? I think not!
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Stiffening the spine of progressive members of Congress is crucial.
