David H. Levy Quotes
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I still study dance, and it's definitely something I want to incorporate in the future. It's always been my first love.
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Matching shoes and bags immediately age you by 10 years.
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The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.
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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
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Turkey, a powerful and reliable ally of the U.S. through the Cold War, appears to be coming unmoored from Europe and the West and is becoming increasingly sectarian, autocratic, and nationalistic.
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We've got a yawl named the Phebe, which is named for a boat in a whaling journal my father and I edited. We keep a copy of the journal on board.
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When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.
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I love Nelly. He's such a great performer. He's so hyper and so am I.
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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
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'Material' is meant to be a fun, lighthearted song about the tiny bit of materialism that's in all of us. The message is meant to translate the notion that you don't need luxury items to feel special; you already are special.
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You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian.
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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
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Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and the Democrats are saying, 'We don't care. We're going to pass it anyway.' And so for the next three months, Washington will be consumed with the Democrats trying to jam this through in a very messy procedure an unpopular health care bill.
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Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
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The textile industry became a huge deal in 19th century America, kind of like the tech industry is today. And that immigrant tradition continues, especially in tech, America's most dominant and dynamic industry today.
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When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my Spanish was domestic, colloquial, and not particularly literary or sophisticated.
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I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
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I never want to draw attention to myself, but that's all I do.
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Comets are like cats: they have tails, and they do precisely what they want.
