Barry Levinson Quotes

Well it was sent to me, well because almost everything that is written in Baltimore is sent to me. And David Simon, who was a writer for the Baltimore Sun, spent one year following the homicide squad in Baltimore and he chronicled that period of time.

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• In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • World
  • Meat

• Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Culture
  • You
  • Conservative

• I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Future
  • Think
  • Twitter

• If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Face
  • Times
  • Joke

• I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Think
  • Find
  • Bored

• They used to tease me at the 'Oprah' show, 'Are you really going to do another white Shaker kitchen, with white subway tile and stainless steel appliances?' And my answer is, 'I can vary it a bit, but I'm never going to err from classic materials.'

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Show
  • Materials
  • Tease

• Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Honor
  • Soldiers
  • Meeting

• One thing you know, if you've been in technology a while, you're only as good as the last thing you did. No one wants an original iPod. No one wants an iPhone 3GS.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Good
  • Technology
  • iPhone

• Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Nature
  • Body
  • Gym

• There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Up
  • Good
  • Attention

• I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Struggle
  • Tongue
  • Impatient

• You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • You
  • Financial
  • Ability

• In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Mother
  • Bible
  • Drink

• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.

  

  Sammy Hagar Chickenfoot
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Want

• The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Money
  • Man
  • Enjoy

• I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Mad
  • Handle
  • Quick

• Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • People
  • Love
  • Identity

• There's many different genres, and when you see R&B and pop and house, as well as electronic, come together, that's the reality of what music is.

  

  David Guetta
  • Music
  • Different
  • Together

• I did my first film with Francis Ford Copploa, which spoiled the hell out of me.

  

  Alden Ehrenreich

• When I was 16, I made some little 35mm documentaries about the poor in London. I went round Notting Hill, which was a real slum in the 1950s, shooting film.

  

  David Suchet
  • Real

• I'm way too famous and rich to be on a dating app, but if I get very desperate by the time I'm 60, I'll go on Tinder. Or I'll go on 'Millionaire Matchmaker'; I'll call Patti Stanger.

  

  Lisa Lampanelli
  • Time
  • Famous
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• Sometimes you have to be a diva. All the artists I admire from Madonna to Whitney to Mariah have all been called divas. If you are strong, if you have vision, if you are an artist, you have to do what you believe in. And if you get called a diva for it, then so what.

  

  Jessie J
  • Believe
  • Strong
  • Vision

• Well it was sent to me, well because almost everything that is written in Baltimore is sent to me. And David Simon, who was a writer for the Baltimore Sun, spent one year following the homicide squad in Baltimore and he chronicled that period of time.

  

  Barry Levinson
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