Deborah Levy Quotes
Be sure to enjoy language, experiment with ways of talking, be exuberant even when you don't feel like it because language can make your world a better place to live.
Quotes to Explore
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.
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Being flown to the U.S. to meet Sofia Coppola is really exciting. I was freaking out. I'm a little nervous, as I don't want to muck it up I want to do my best.
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I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.
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It's been so amazing. I've always struggled with this barrier that I felt like I'd had up until blogging came along. Just one comment from somebody really sparks something in me. It doesn't need to be this huge war between me and the listeners anymore. I really thrive on that.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
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Let us have peace.
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The problem of the minimum dwelling is that of establishing the elementary minimum of space, air, light, and heat required by man in order that he be able to fully develop his life functions without experiencing limitations due to his dwelling, i.e. a minimum modus vivendi in place of a modus non moriendi.
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I never feel there's anything I can't do.
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I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.
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I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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Early on, after gay liberation, there was an almost Stalinist pressure from gay critics and even gay readers to write about positive role models. We were never supposed to write negative things about gays, or else we were seen as collaborating with the enemy.
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I'm street smart. You can't con me. But that's just from living in New York. Now if a guy came from Mississippi somewhere, Ohio somewhere, to New York City for the first time, he don't have the street smarts. You can take him.
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In India, nobody really talks about works of art; they always talk about the appreciation of art. You buy this for 3,000 rupees, it'll become 30,000 in two months.
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Every parent wants to know that their children are protected against those who have a particular agenda until they get old enough to make decisions for themselves.
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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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According to Colonel Ely Garrison, in his autobiography and according to the United States Naval Secret Service Report on Paul Warburg, the Russian Revolution had been financed by the Rothschilds and Warburgs, with a member of the Warburg family carrying the actual funds used by Lenin and Trotsky in Stockholm in 1918.
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Every Englishman is an average Englishman: it is a national characteristic.
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Your heavenly home was bought for a price, and that payment results in a title deed that can never be lost through foreclosure.
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Be sure to enjoy language, experiment with ways of talking, be exuberant even when you don't feel like it because language can make your world a better place to live.
