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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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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Some countries need extra stimulus in specific areas. Something has to be done against high youth unemployment in Greece and Spain, for example. But in the end, there is no way around it: The debt levels have to come down.
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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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Melatonin levels start to rise around 9 or 10 at night in most people.
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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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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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I will do everything that is required in order to bring immigration down to a level that is manageable, that the public believe is right.
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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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I don't necessarily self-identify as a writer, 'cause it implies a certain level of intelligence.
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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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Nothing you write is ever lost to you. At some other level your mind is working on it.
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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 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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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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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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I thought Hillary Clinton was remarkably elegant and intelligent and focusing on the issues even though her opponent was trying to bring the talk always to vulgar, low levels. Even his presence was bullying, was lurking, and was just mainly creepy.
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I like lists, I'm controlling, I like order. I'm difficult on every level.
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The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world.
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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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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.
