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

• 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

• 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 my ethics and morals. I have my anchor point of what is right and wrong in real life, but I'm not afraid to entertain any and every aspect of personality in relationship to creating a character.

  

  Corin Nemec
  • Life
  • Real
  • Character

• Shouldn't a great museum foster serious seeing before all else?

  

  Mark Stevens
  • Great
  • Serious

• Isolationism is not leadership.

  

  John Hickenlooper
  • Leadership

• Over the years, I began to understand that there were a lot of people out there reading physics in popular literature that they could not understand - not because it was too advanced, but because it wasn't advanced enough.

  

  Leonard Susskind
  • People
  • Reading
  • Literature

• I've found that one's language abilities, especially for Korean kids like me, get frozen at the age you immigrated. So I've always associated Korea with being a child and being infantilized through my inability to speak.

  

  John Cho
  • Kids
  • Age
  • Frozen

• I'mma just do me, when it feel right.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Funny
  • Feels
  • MMA

• Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Free
  • Silence

• I think I've gone through my life with the understanding that you've got to let go and you can't think that you're going to control your destiny.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Control

• I didn't fall in love with you. I walked into love with you, with my eyes wide open, choosing to take every step along the way. I do believe in fate and destiny, but I also believe we are only fated to do the things that we'd choose anyway. And I'd choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I'd find you and I'd choose you.

  

  Kiersten White
  • World
  • Believe
  • Reality

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

  

  David Levien
  • Destiny
  • Chooses