David H. Levy Quotes

To be neurotic is to spend one’s life perpetually replacing one worry with the next.

David H. Levy

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• My sisters used to learn dance, and I used to stand behind them and dance. So my guruji suggested that I also learn, as I seemed interested. I started learning at the age of three and was always on stage for something or the other. My mother is proud of me, and clearly my artistic bent comes from her.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Mother
  • Age
  • Learning

• I'm a little angry in life.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Life
  • Angry
  • Little

• I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Cool
  • Calm
  • Stay

• If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.

  

  Page McConnell
  • Live
  • Business
  • Support

• I'm not religious, so theres no church on Sunday.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Church
  • Religious
  • Sunday

• Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • True
  • Today

• In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.

  

  Idi Amin
  • People
  • Country
  • Law

• But people who really know me, know that I am not a bad boy at heart... I am a big teddy bear.

  

  AJ McLean
  • People
  • Heart
  • Bad

• Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Change
  • Die
  • Old

• I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Remember
  • Care

• I play the guitar when I want to relax. But to play the guitar, you cut the nails. So one day, I'll cut the nails off.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Day
  • Guitar
  • Relax

• That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Movie
  • Never
  • Finish

• It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.

  

  Daniel Bernoulli
  • True
  • Earth
  • Better

• While receiving radiation treatment for a thyroid illness, I had refused to take beta-blockers - a medication that would have eased its side effects - because they were deemed illegal by the sport's governing body, the International Association of Athletics Federations.

  Gail Devers
  • Body
  • Illness
  • Medication

• Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied rather than ridiculed.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Important

• We should not underestimate the harm it would bring should it be published.

  

  Vasily Grossman

• Ch. 2 Relativity

  

  Arthur Eddington

• To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

  

  Bertrand Russell

• My mother and grandmother had me in church, and I was the kid that played in church. But pastor was telling me something totally different that there was a God. He knit me together in my mother's womb. He made me special. He wanted to have a personal relationship with me.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • God
  • Different
  • Together

• When I was in the hospital getting my sex change, I was just wishing I could be a pretty girl working in a mall. If I could have a crystal ball and see what I look like now - you know, modeling, David LaChapelle, hanging out with Daphne Guinness, singing with Lil' Kim, and traveling all over the world, I'd be like, "Wow, I can't believe this."

  

  Amanda Lepore
  • World
  • Believe
  • Girl

• No one knows enough to worry.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Worry
  • Enough
  • Knows

• We have to start making sure that churches start to talk about... black queerness in a way that's affirming. Because a lot of young black men are in the church, and that's where they start to learn this self-hate behavior.

  

  Karamo Brown
  • Men
  • Black
  • Hate

• The right to err, which means the freedom to try experiments, is the universal condition of all progress.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Freedom
  • Condition
  • Experiments

• To be neurotic is to spend one’s life perpetually replacing one worry with the next.

  

  David H. Levy
  • Worry
  • Neurotic
  • Replacing