David H. Levy Quotes
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I love everything that's beautiful. A lot of things.
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Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.
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Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.
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Simply, there are many things I would like to do.
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I love to personalize things. I love to make things my own. I like to name everything - from cars to iPhones to the socks I just lost.
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I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place.
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I'm getting to be a real pro at coming into things midstream and trying to catch up.
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Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.
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Necessity has been a priceless spur which has helped men to perform miracles against incredible odds.
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When people say 'that's risky,' or when the odds are not in my favor, I'm more motivated than ever.
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I worked also, doing things such as our paper route and, later on, waitressing.
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I never felt like I wanted to have kids until I could be home and be a daddy, and those are the things that I didn't have.
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I love finding things that scare me and doing them. That's how you grow.
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I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things.
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I travel with a lot of clothes, which is a really bad idea because it's such a nightmare to travel. I always overpack because I like to bring things with me, and I accumulate stuff, so it piles up. I travel with everything I own.
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Some things in literature are inexplicable.
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Humans are mutants, everything's a mutant - things that evolve.
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I always compartmentalized so many different things.
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A lot of people have called me the black Bette Midler, and I regard that as a compliment.
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The people from where I grew up have no appreciation for Paleolithic rocks or menstrual calendars. I'm a retriever of lost iconographies. But I had real training and have deep discipline, and I believe in it. Too much of the work I see today is just cultural junk. It's very superficial and has no rigor. It doesn't address the dynamic and real politics of an aesthetic structure.
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Things could always be worse. In fact, the overwhelming odds are that they will be.
