Levon Helm Quotes

I've had all the lessons I could get. I've learned from everybody I've ever met.

Levon Helm

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• On the evidence I have on hand at home, social media isn't killing our children. It isn't killing families, either, because the constant long bloody phone calls that parents complained to their teenagers about in decades past are gone.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Long
  • Children
  • Home

• What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Women
  • Love
  • Need

• I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Life
  • World
  • Day

• I started cooking out of middle school depression.

  

  Zac Posen
  • School
  • Cooking
  • Depression

• For a while, even in the house of good friends for dinner or for cocktails, they would really be upset. They thought I had single-handedly destroyed the best phone service in the world.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • World
  • Good
  • Friends

• Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.

  

  Gary Ryan Blair
  • Mind
  • Goals
  • Blessed

• A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not manipulating, when they're all alone, there's nothing.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Up
  • Alone
  • Environment

• We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Through

• I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role.

  

  Gary Carr
  • Great
  • Playing
  • Role

• 'The Movie' is something that I made with some friends of mine in L.A. My friend, Luke Eberl, is the filmmaker. He shot this movie and asked a bunch of his friends to be involved with it. I just saw him the other day and there is no money to finish the film. But, you know, I literally have a cameo in it.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Money
  • Friends
  • Movie

• I think when you start analyzing trends and start making shows for a particular audience, you are making a fatal move. I think that's why people are doing too many revivals, that's why there's a plethora of rock musicals. There's room for everything, but not room for too much of anything.

  

  Harold Prince
  • People
  • Why
  • Rock

• To keep something around just because it is already on the books, I think, is wrong.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Think
  • Wrong
  • Just Because

• For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Friends
  • Parents
  • Science

• As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Child
  • Professional
  • Athlete

• I mix everything up. A museum curator once said to me that there is a great jazz component to the way I do things because good jazz is improvisation and draws elements from all different cultures. And that's the way I do everything - the way I dress and decorate.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• Where there is humility, there is more success, and lasting success.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Success
  • Humility
  • Where

• A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.

  

  O. Henry
  • Way
  • Air
  • Vote

• I drive girls crazy because I might call them 20 times in one day and then the next day not once.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Day
  • Crazy
  • Drive

• I had the opportunity to go with some other teams. But I didn't consider those teams to be contenders, and I was right.

  

  Pedro Martinez
  • Opportunity

• You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.

  

  David Coverdale Whitesnake

• When you have kids and get older, it goes beyond flowers and chocolate. It's about waking up with a baby, letting her sleep in, and making a coffee for her when she wakes up. To me, being romantic is putting someone else first and thinking about what makes them happy.

  

  James Marsden
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Happy

• We've had a lot of parents ask questions about the program.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Parents
  • Questions
  • Program

• Remember, you fly an airplane with you head, not your hands and feet.

  

  Bevo Howard
  • Remember
  • Hands
  • Airplane

• I've had all the lessons I could get. I've learned from everybody I've ever met.

  

  Levon Helm