Edward Levi Quotes
Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself.
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We really accomplished what we set out to do with the Recovery Act programs, which was to fill the lending gap created by the crisis.
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With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.
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If you stop one terror attack in the U.S., it may be connected to multiple other plots out there that are connected. If you reveal that you stopped one plot, it may tip our hand.
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I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.
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Bailing out every bank that fails makes the system riskier, not safer.
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I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice.
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I was given an incredible gift growing up in the Chelsea, a space where it is completely fine to be yourself - you just had to figure out what that was. You didn't have to figure that out in the face of opposition at every turn.
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I'm not really massively into going out. I'm much more of a hibernator. It's nice to have people come to your house or go to someone's house, I think.
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It's not that I am not emotional, but I am extremely secure and curb it, as I am afraid to let go and be broken. So, I have cultivated myself to be detached in life, specially where movies are concerned.
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I still have never met Harry Saltzman, and was told he is quite unpleasant.
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It's definitely the development that has changed the way Montenegro is seen in the eyes of the world.
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There's a lot of head-shaking and forehead-slapping when you start to realize just how deep-seated misogyny can be, how systemic and entrenched certain modes of thinking are that are still very much alive.
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Liberal redistributionists in favor of heavy taxation place less weight on incentive than do small-government conservatives.
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It's been an interesting progression, going from soap to a sitcom with 'How I Met Your Mother' and now being a series regular on 'Homeland.'
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It's not about retro or modern, it's about this note or that note, which sounds better?
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When my mum first told me she got sick, I didn't cry. I probably cried over my mum's illness twice.
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Before I ever acted as an amateur - which I did a great deal at school and at university - I used to go to the theater with my parents in the north of England, where I was born and brought up... Theater of all sorts.
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I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird.
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That first year in Chicago was one of the most memorable in my career. Getting traded rejuvenated me, and I had something to prove. I wanted to show them what I could do.
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The state treasurer has authority to weigh in and take leadership roles on taxing and spending legislation.
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I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before.
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When you have a tough childhood, you either cry or make a joke.
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The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.
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Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself.
