David H. Levy Quotes
There are three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.
Quotes to Explore
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Fitzgerald was a modernist.
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Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.
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In 2004, I went onstage for the first time. They put a mike in my hand and pushed me out the door into the crowd. I did the three songs I had recorded and got out. It was the worst day of my life.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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First and foremost, I look for a great script. Then, the team that I am working with. Only then, we will be able to come up with a good film.
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Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
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Any girl who likes watching movies would like to work in them and would want to do all of that. I'm also one of them. But people know me for badminton and love me for it. So I'd stick to it right now. But maybe after badminton, I'll think about it.
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In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like medicine or engineering, it had a definite, valuable purpose: to foster 'comprehension.'
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
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I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness. And not a moral wrongness but a sense that this isn't what I was born to be doing.
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If I could drink only one wine, it would be Champagne.
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I think ballet has influenced my personality a lot in the sense that I am very disciplined in all of my endeavours. I am always on time; I take things very seriously. I've built up my inner strength and self-esteem over time as I've improved as a dancer.
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Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.
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Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.
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Like so many women, especially military women, I waited to have children.
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Perfectionists are their own devils.
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I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.
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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
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I'm damn successful but I got here by not taking crap. I still don't take crap, so if anybody needs a champion, let it be me.
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With the rise of industrialism, words like 'normal' and 'defective,' words that had once only been used to refer to things, began to be used to refer to people. ... In the industrial age, a new degree of uniformity was expected of people. The rhythms and pacing of life could no longer be organic. People became expected to function like things.
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Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
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Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.
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There are three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.
