Levon Helm Quotes

Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it.

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• There is a recognition that Second Amendment rights, like First Amendment and other rights, come with responsibilities and limitations. There is no reason both sides of the gun debate can't support policies that both protect the right to legally own guns for sport and safety, and reduce the likelihood of mass fatalities.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Support
  • Gun
  • Safety

• I hope our people hold tight to the notion that we do not have to be a fear-ridden country focused on restrictions, but rather that we remain the land of the free and home of the brave.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • People
  • Country
  • Home

• The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Blood
  • Suicide
  • Revenge

• Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Knowledge

• If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • High
  • Chance
  • Curiosity

• Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Art
  • Experience
  • Brain

• I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Great
  • Want
  • Just

• I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Work
  • Force
  • Directors

• Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • France
  • YouTube
  • Naive

• I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Forget
  • Bosnia

• I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.

  

  Yoon Ahn
  • Pretty
  • Simple
  • Nothing

• Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.

  

  Nastia Liukin
  • Life
  • Family
  • Business

• Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • America
  • Confusion
  • Only

• I'm confident and really optimistic.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Really
  • Optimistic
  • Confident

• Well, I think the world changes around you - I think you don't change. That's as simple as that.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • World
  • Change
  • Simple

• In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.

  

  Federico Garcia Lorca
  • World
  • Country
  • Alive

• It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.

  

  Vida Blue
  • Men
  • Weird
  • Baseball

• I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Think
  • Political
  • Rest

• Love your kid as much as you possibly can, and do what you need to do for your family because my situation and what I do for my kid may not work for you.

  

  Drew Lachey
  • Work
  • Family
  • May

• Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Men
  • Live
  • Bread

• I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don't know. They're outside my ken. But sometimes when I'm in a theater I can feel them.

  

  Pauline Kael
  • World
  • Live

• Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Science
  • Poverty
  • Prosperity

• Anyone who wants to offer me as mushy, earthy, crunchy a role as they can, I will probably take it. In real life, I cry at a drop of a hat, and I'm a mom, and I'm pretty mushy! We all have so many colors as actors that we want to show.

  

  Alysia Reiner
  • Life
  • Real
  • Pretty

• Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it.

  

  Levon Helm
  • Live
  • Song