Levels Quotes
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Nas' Illmatic blew my mind when I first heard it. The poetry was done on such a high level that in a way, it validated our existence, our culture. He used the language of the street at the time and made it art. Art tends to be validating.
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In America, we need to develop communitywide structures of democratic ownership, we need to work out cooperative development, we need to work out participatory management, we need new ecological strategies developed at the local city, state, regional level.
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Setbacks in life are opportunities to perform at a new level.
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Melatonin levels start to rise around 9 or 10 at night in most people.
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It's a product of the fractal laws that govern the world at an informational level. There is no deeper truth.
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Information is just simply bootstrapping itself to higher and higher levels of self-reflection and self-coordination using whatever means are necessary.
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He told us that most of us would die violently, and those who did not would be brought down to the level of beasts.
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Nothing you write is ever lost to you. At some other level your mind is working on it.
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Writing a funny story is one thing. But writing a funny story that inspires others to venture beyond their level of comfort in pursuit of their greater good is what makes me come alive.
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Some white people are so accustomed to operating at a competitive advantage that when the playing field is level, they feel handicapped.
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Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the lives of my characters, as well, albeit on a much different level.
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You know, the Super Bowl is so fresh that every single commercial is even on, you know, some next-level entertainment.
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The independent route was the best move for me. But I think I've maximized everything I could do independently. I've done everything out the mixtape market. I think getting the big machine behind you is the next stage when you've maximized the independent level.
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I don't necessarily self-identify as a writer, 'cause it implies a certain level of intelligence.
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The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation.
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In a weird way scientists understand things on a higher level but it takes a lot of dedication and a lot of time.
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If you don't let a teacher know what level you are -- by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance -- you will not learn or grow
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Our losses have reached an intolerable level. The enemy air force played a decisive role in inflicting these high losses.
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I want to question the images that are in our memory. There is always a double level in my work; what you see is true and at the same time not true.
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Every single organization - or career, for that matter - exists on three levels: WHAT you do, HOW you do it and WHY you do it.
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The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world.
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If psychedelics are, on any level, to be taken seriously as catalyzers or expanders of consciousness, then we need them, because it's an absence of consciousness that is making this historical transition so excruciating.
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Imagine if you've got the diva of all divas. If we've got to be somewhere at five or six o'clock, I tell her its time to go at noon so she gets those five hours to do what she needs to do. But were both kids at heart. She is the funniest person ever and she has a great sense of humor. We connect at a spiritual level.
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You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning of the film—and such speculation is one indication that it has succeeded in gripping the audience at a deep level—but I don't want to spell out a verbal road map for 2001 that every viewer will feel obligated to pursue or else fear he's missed the point.
