Levi Strauss Quotes
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I don't even have my own computer.
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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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The craziest thing I've ever done to get a guy's attention? I admit I stalked someone. I showed up at a restaurant where I knew the guy worked, and we were actually good friends and had lost touch, and I pretended that I didn't know he worked there.
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The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time.
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I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.
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I never had any backlash from the model-turned-actor thing.
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I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.
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Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
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Whether I like it or not, I've become influential to people.
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Anything salty and crunch is a world of perfection to me. Put chips in front of me, and I will eat to the bottom of the bag. Because I have the tendency to do this, I found these amazing Eden Brown Rice Chips. They're the perfect amount of salt and crunch, and there's nothing in them.
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I was in the streets at eight, nine years old.
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Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.
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Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.
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My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.
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I'm Irish and always will be, but America has taught me so much. Maybe it's here in the U.S. that we find a healing, for in the broader melting pot we get to look at some of these self-destructive attributes that we bring to bear upon our own quarrels and begin to solve them in ways other than just splitting apart.
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When you're used to looking through a stills lens and you have to capture an emotional moment, and that picture is not moving and yet it has to have impact, I think that's the first influence on my style.
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There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me – those are some of the things that lead you to the arts.
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I ran for office originally as part of this Tea Party Movement because we were upset with Republicans who've doubled the debt. We were upset with Republicans that bailed out the banks.
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Christianity in the Middle East is shattered. The ancient faith tradition lies beaten, broken, and dying.
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'Wiseguy' for its time was good. It was really good. And it holds up still. But a lot of the restraints have been taken off now.
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I go to Buzzfeed and 'Huff Po,' IMDB, 'Deadline.' And then I just Google myself, like 'Aasif Mandvi in a hat,' and see what comes up.
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When I found out I had cancer, I just said one thing: 'I want to hold on to life' and that changed everything for me.
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Most people don't like to be confronted with an actual fact-of-life because it's difficult to metabolize. A painting of a bowl of fruit is much easier. It's for the same reason why we don't like going to the doctor. The diagnosis and x-rays are too honest. This is what creates the perception that contemporary art is shocking or suspicious.
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