Ken Levine (Kenneth M. Levine) Quotes

We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us.

Ken Levine

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• What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Life
  • World
  • Writing

• A pitcher is only as good as his legs.

  

  Early Wynn
  • Good
  • Legs
  • Pitcher

• Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Long
  • Focus
  • Decisions

• If you look at NBC, two of their most successful shows - '30 Rock' and 'Parks And Rec' - are written by women, produced by women, and I think that's the future. Women are the new men.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Men
  • Women
  • Future

• The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.

  

  Carl Van Vechten
  • Remember
  • Man
  • Friend

• Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.

  

  Yitzhak Navon
  • Why
  • Friend
  • Best

• 'I Will Follow' is a celebration of life. Sometimes when you lose something, you understand its value more than when you had it. The same is true for life.

  

  Salli Richardson
  • Life
  • True
  • Value

• I think that's exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days. Let's do a startup in our parents' garage and try to create a business.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Business
  • Think
  • Parents

• You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • World
  • Believe
  • Black

• I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Future
  • Control

• Wal-Mart is the biggest distributor of DVDs out there, but personally, I think their manufacturing policies have destroyed our economy, and they don't pay their employees enough. I have massive problems with them.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Problems
  • Economy
  • Employees

• The problem with pity parties is very few people come, and those who do don't bring presents.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Problem
  • Very

• It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • You
  • Simple
  • Faithful

• I don't like being stagnant. I want to continue to grow and just be better at what I do, and the only way to do that is to keep stepping outside of your comfort zone.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Better
  • Grow
  • Comfort Zone

• Being seduced by a man on crutches was an interesting experience.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Experience
  • Man
  • Interesting

• I'm obsessed with 'Homeland.' It's not even okay.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Obsessed
  • Okay
  • Homeland

• Country fans and country listeners deserve to have something better... a song that really has something to say, something that makes you feel something.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Country
  • Song
  • Better

• I feel like a lot of serious music lives in generalizations - 'Love is a flower,' 'The sky is so dark' - but comedy lives in specifics.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Music
  • Comedy
  • Serious

• I'm really not one about reform, I'm about tearing it down, revolution.

  

  Aja Monet
  • Revolution
  • Reform
  • Tearing

• What we learn for the sake of knowing, we hold; what we learn for the sake of accomplishing some ulterior end, we forget as soon as that end has been gained. This, too, is automatic action in the constitution of the mind itself, and it is fortunate and merciful that it is so, for otherwise our minds would be soon only rubbish-rooms.

  

  Anna Brackett
  • Action
  • Learn
  • End

• I never knew motherhood could be so truly gratifying until I had Natasha.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Never
  • Motherhood
  • Knew

• We like to pile language on language. Hunter [ S. Thompson] was an influence on me, no doubt about it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Language
  • Doubt
  • Hunters

• So one of the profound things we found when studying these congregations, the mixed ones, is just how much overlap and interracial ties that develop not only with the people in the congregation, but they start meeting each other's families, and their friends, and they go to each other's neighborhoods if they live in different neighborhoods, and at work they meet people they wouldn't otherwise met, and so it creates a whole new definition of what the group is.

  

  Michael Emerson
  • Families
  • Develop
  • Creates

• We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us.

  

  Ken Levine
  • Choices
  • End
  • Make