Levon Helm Quotes
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The views of religious-Zionist rabbis are of course worthy of being heard, yet they represent a very defined and very narrow camp within the Israeli spectrum. This is not the way to shape the perception of future division and brigade commanders.
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Filming is quite exciting because every day is different, but it can involve long hours standing around in chilly locations. Theatre is a very different challenge because every night you're striving to keep it fresh, even though you might have been performing the same play for months.
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The only way you know what it is to be a boxer is to be one.
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I can unite the people of Israel, so I won't speak about controversial issues, which divide the people.
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When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.
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There are certain places in the world that are kind of energy vortexes, which are phenomenal.
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Football is made up of all kinds of conflict. In a dressing room, between players, between us and the manager, between us and loads of people who don't seem to matter. It's constant and harsh sometimes.
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We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.
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I am my biggest critic. Even in films where people said they liked me, I have disliked myself.
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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.
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'Extract' was kind of a grown up 'Office Space' in the sense of talking about the ennui of being a successful person in America if you don't have some real passion in your life for something to care about.
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I'd played some very good games, at Manchester United, at Tottenham Hotspur, but they'd lacked a goal. There've been times when I could have scored myself, but I've played a pass to a team-mate instead.
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Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.
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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
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Revolution comes when human beings set out to correct decadent institutions.
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Democracy as a system of government may indeed be unprecedented in Afghanistan, but democracy as a way of life, a set of principles and values, is deeply embedded in our society.
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Armed men don’t sit down and talk.
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The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world. The more intensively the family has stamped its character upon the child, the more it will tend to feel and see its earlier miniature world again in the bigger world of adult life. Naturally this is not a conscious, intellectual process.
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Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star.
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Everything happens for a reason, but that doesn't mean there's a point.
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When I'm actually getting off the bus, I still have my gospel playing. That's the way-to-the-game kind of music.
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Sometimes the best thing we can ask for is change, and a fresh start forces us to confront change head-on.
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Well, somebody's got to sing. They won't hire you unless you sing.
