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

• 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 never really enjoyed getting a portfolio together then sending it out; whereas, putting up the website is quite an enjoyable experience. The net's just a much faster and more modern way to distribute things, and you have to embrace it.

  

  Anton Corbijn
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Together

• If our love were but more simple,We should take Him at His word;And our lives would be all sunshineIn the sweetness of the Lord.

  

  Frederick William Faber
  • Simple

• You have not known what you are - you have slumber'd upon yourself all your life; Your eye-lids have been the same as closed most of the time; What you have done returns already in mockeries; Your thrift, knowledge, prayers, if they do not return in mockeries, what is their return? The mockeries are not you; Underneath them, and within them, I see you lurk.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Life
  • Prayers
  • Lurk

• Suppose you were to come upon someone in the woods working feverishly to saw down a tree. "What are you doing?" you ask. "Can't you see?" comes the impatient reply. "I'm sawing down this tree." "You look exhausted!" you exclaim. "How long have you been at it?" "Over five hours," he returns, "and I'm beat! This is hard work." 'Well, why don't you take a break for a few minutes and sharpen that saw?" you inquire. "I'm sure it would go a lot faster." "I don't have time to sharpen the saw," the man says emphatically. "I'm too busy sawing!"

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Long
  • Action
  • Tree

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

  

  David Levien
  • Destiny
  • Chooses