Barry Levinson Quotes
A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
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A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.
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Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.
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I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
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In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
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My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
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It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.
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I've been doing this since 2011, when I started on Instagram. Building my presence on there was important to my brand, but I wanted to take my audience to other platforms, so I then crossed over to Twitter second, then YouTube third. It wasn't until I made my fourth crossover to a different platform that I went to Vine.
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I'm one of those pesky Brits.
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The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.
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I enjoy hiking and skiing, like most Norwegians. In winter, there will be snow for months on end. In the summer, there are the long evenings to enjoy.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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In the Army, because the stakes are so high - right? - you can't just be a yes-man and say, 'Great idea, boss!' if you don't believe it - right? - because lives are at stake. And the commanders that I've worked for, they want frank assessments; they want criticism and feedback.
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It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
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Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.
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Oh, I don't keep a journal. How you remember an incident is dictated by your emotional state at the time. How you receive the information that is coming in is definitely based on your history and who you are.
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When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera.
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Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.
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A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.
