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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I remember once when I was working on a magazine, and one of the male editors was going on a field trip with one of his sons. The office was full of, 'He's such a good dad,' whereas I came in late from a doctor's appointment for one of my children and was asked, 'Where were you? You'll need to make up the time.'
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Well, Bradbury's a genius. Fahrenheit 451 is one of my favorite books of all time, and The Illustrated Man as a collection of short stories ranks up there. When you read it you realize how influential it is on so many other stories and people.
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Life is not a thing of knowing only - nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotion.
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You're going to play good. You're going to play bad. But as long as I stay healthy, I should be happy. Every player should feel the same way.
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I've had way more rejections than I've had jobs.
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A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.
