Margarita Levieva Quotes
I grew up in communist Russia where we didn't have anything, so I'm not worried that I can't buy an extra pair of shoes.
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
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I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
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What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
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People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
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I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.
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It's a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you've paid all the bills and put the kids through college and that, you know, there's only enough left for a small island off the South Pacific.
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If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
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People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first.
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Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.
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I love L.A. for the beach and stuff, that's the reason I live here.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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After deep exercise of soul I was brought by grace to feel I could entirely.
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Comedians second-guessing themselves is scary. Poor taste is not a crime and we can't forget that.
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A lot of my characters are people who are, in essence, lying to themselves. They present one thing, when in reality they're another thing. Maybe they're not as tough or as cool as they want to be.
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I was really ambitious, so I was innovative. I was one of the first DJs to do live calls, 'cause I found this phone device that would pick up other people's voices.
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I definitely have a strong sense of my Jewish and Israeli identity. I did my two-year military service; I was brought up in a very Jewish, Israeli family environment, so of course my heritage is very important to me.
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I grew up in communist Russia where we didn't have anything, so I'm not worried that I can't buy an extra pair of shoes.
