Gary LeVox Quotes
You can't manufacture the feeling of being in a small crowd and connecting on every single level to the very last person in the very last row in the back.
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I have always tried to make profitable films because people's offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that.
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Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.
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Freedom across the world is a result of many individuals working together.
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We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.
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We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.
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Numerous academic studies have shown that amateur investors make poor traders - buying stocks for the wrong reasons, holding losers for too long, and acting on whims and emotions.
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It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.
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The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.
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I feel passionately that the opportunities I have had should be available to everyone.
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My parents are not theatrical people, but my dad took me to the theater.
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I really feel like I honed in on a sound and a style of writing that best fits me.
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I wash my face day and night. I actually really love Dr. Lancer face wash, and I also love Neutrogena.
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It's more like Christmas, you know, when you get a shot in that looks great and it's exactly what you want. It's a great feeling, and there's nothing like it.
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A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
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Self-esteem comes from who you have in your life. How you were raised. What you struggled with as a child.
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I don't like to feel like I'm in a club when I'm in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything that ceases to be a song and just sounds like house music kind of stresses me out.
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I don't have a strong interest in history.
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After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat. I thought, if a 60-year-old metabolic fat man, after five years, can get to Mount Everest, that would be very exciting.
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We stand on our songs and we stand on the songs that we wrote for other people. That gives us a higher platform.
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If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.
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There is a triple layer of jargon when writing about climate change. You have the scientists, who are very cautious now because of the amount of climate denial. Then you have the U.N. jargon - I had to carry around a glossary of terms. It was like an alphabet soup.
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Its impossible to explain creativity. It's like asking a bird, 'How do you fly?' You just do.
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I'm the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It's a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don't like - and the fact that it's not reversible.
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You can't manufacture the feeling of being in a small crowd and connecting on every single level to the very last person in the very last row in the back.
