Levon Helm Quotes

I don't think I'm a millionaire, but I'm comfortable.

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• Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?

  

  Karan Johar
  • Life
  • Up
  • Myself

• Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Stop
  • Water
  • Dog

• Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Friend
  • Look
  • Dating

• The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Me
  • Best
  • Experiences

• Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Trying
  • Athlete
  • Equality

• I really would like to be involved in things and to understand things, and in some ways you've got to be careful what you wish for because I feel very, very blessed to have such an interesting life and to be able to have little snapshots of lives of people from many different parts of the world.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• With every story that TV covers, somebody - some corporation, some shareholders - are making money. That's true whether covering Libya, Iraq, the tsunami in Japan, Osama bin Laden, whatever story there is. That day, the shareholders are making money off it. Every newspaper that's sold, somebody's making a dime.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Money
  • True
  • Day

• The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Moving
  • Wit
  • Moving On

• You always read stories of people going out to California and making it as an actor with, like, two dollars, so I figured I'd try it.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • California
  • Try

• Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • School
  • Book
  • High

• There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Life
  • Wish
  • Dumb

• Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • People
  • Love
  • Society

• I like trying to make sounds that are interesting and are a bit weird. I try to make music that captures people's imaginations.

  

  Sampha
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• I haven't put an ounce of effort into my families. I never have.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Never
  • Effort
  • Ounce

• Leading the SMU men's basketball program is an honor and a responsibility that I take very seriously.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Men
  • Responsibility
  • Honor

• The world is waiting for us, the world wants to engage with us, the world wants to be friendly with us, the world wants to be our partner in prosperity, and the world admires India in many ways.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • World
  • Waiting
  • Partner

• quoted in American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good (2015)

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Good
  • Character
  • American

• Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Life
  • Positive

• There is something very unnatural and odious in a government a thousand leagues off. A whole government of our own choice, managed by persons whom we love, revere, and can confide in, has charms in it for which men will fight.

  

  John Adams
  • Men

• In the case of archery, the hitter and the hit are no longer two opposing objects, but are one reality.

  

  Eugen Herrigel
  • Reality
  • Hitter
  • Archery

• I'm honestly as happy writing Superman Adventures as I am writing Wanted.

  

  Mark Millar
  • Writing
  • Happy
  • Superman

• Often in the past, there have been authors that were deeply disappointed in their adaptation, but that's because they haven't accepted the fact that a movie is a different thing, and it can't possibly be the same as the book.

  

  Lois Lowry
  • Different
  • Book
  • Movie

• At 17, I signed a recording contract right out of high school, so I started touring and traveling the world. I sort of missed out on the college experience.

  

  Tommy Lee Mötley Crüe
  • High School
  • Traveling
  • Recording

• I don't think I'm a millionaire, but I'm comfortable.

  

  Levon Helm