David Levien Quotes

We can't run from who we are; our destiny chooses us.

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• I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.

  

  Mahesh Bhupathi
  • World
  • Best
  • Talent

• You can say we're trying too hard or that we didn't try hard enough, but we're not trying at all; we're just doing what we do.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Trying
  • Doing
  • Try

• The only band I was really over-into was Cream. And the only thing I really liked about them was their live stuff 'cause they played two verses, then go off and jam for 20 minutes, come back and do a chorus and end. And I love the live jam stuff, the improvisation.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • End
  • Thing
  • Cause

• One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • People
  • Movie
  • Stupid

• In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Up
  • Great
  • America

• In the end, our minds and their ability to create new ideas are the ultimate source of all human wealth. That's a resource nearly without limit.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Ideas
  • End
  • Wealth

• Important things are inevitably cliché.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Important

• I consider not what Parmenion should receive, but what Alexander should give.

  

  Alexander the Great

• In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.

  

  Anne Enright
  • Grandparents

• As an actor, it's amazing to get to create different characters.

  

  Brandon T. Jackson
  • Different
  • Amazing

• In the early days of the New England colonies, no more embarrassing or hampering condition, no greater temporal ill, could befall any adult Puritan than to be unmarried.

  

  Alice Morse Earle

• Food decisions - do I eat this or not? - are always going to be there.

  

  Carnie Wilson Wilson Phillips
  • Food

• My father has never once asked me a question, any question. There's a freedom that came from that. It allowed me to create my own way of thinking.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Thinking
  • Father
  • Freedom

• I have always supported measures and principles and not men.

  

  Davy Crockett
  • Men

• I'm still young; I've had a couple things under my belt. I don't even think I've begun where I'm gonna be eventually. I really feel very much in the beginning of my journey. I feel very new.

  

  Lauren London
  • Beginning
  • Couple
  • Journey

• There will be far greater accountability, dramatically improved access, responsiveness, and expanded care options, but the Department of Veterans Affairs will not be privatized under my watch.

  

  David Shulkin
  • Accountability

• Aja Naomi is one of my good friends.

  

  Brian Tyree Henry
  • Good
  • Friends

• I have certain rules for snooping, under which anything out in the open is fair game. But I also think, in light of some current trends in our culture, that privacy should be respected.

  

  Lisa Lutz
  • Game
  • Culture
  • Light

• I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Help

• The American people want solutions to the problems our country faces. They may disagree on exactly how to address the issues, but they want them addressed all the same.

  

  Martha Roby
  • People
  • Country
  • May

• In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Time
  • Autumn

• Actually, cartoon characters do exist.

  

  Robert Trujillo Black Label Society
  • Cartoon

• Choice, not chance, determines your destiny. It's up to you to decide what you are worth, how you matter, and how you make meaning in the world. No one else has your gifts--your set of talents, ideas, interests. You are an original. A masterpiece.

  

  Regina Brett
  • World
  • Chance
  • Destiny

• We can't run from who we are; our destiny chooses us.

  

  David Levien
  • Destiny
  • Chooses