Philip Levine Quotes

I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves.

Philip Levine

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 10, 1928 - February 14, 2015

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Twenty-seven years incarcerated, his jailer became his best friend. So if you need an example on how we should act and how we should be, then Nelson Mandela is the man to follow.

Jim Brown

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I have an iPad and I watch three things: 'The Daily Show,' '60 Minutes,' and 'Meet the Press.'

Jesse Eisenberg

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The director's task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and conflicts. It is his duty to reveal every iota of the truth he has seen, even if not everyone finds that truth acceptable.

Andrei Tarkovsky

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The government can spy on people using their mobile phones while they're with their wives and husbands.

John McAfee

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I think your alcohol intake has to change. You know, usually a big person feels they can drink anything they want to and as much as they want to and I've cut that way back.

Mike Ditka

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It's not like I have media out there when I'm training. I'm training the same. I'm putting in the same work.

Michelle Jenneke

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What is design? It's where you stand with a foot in two worlds - the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes - and you try to bring the two together.

Mitch Kapor

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A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?

Don Marquis

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'Home Alone' had become the absolute biggest film I had ever done, and it became the third-highest grossing film of all time. So clearly it had an effect on me that is unparalleled to any other film experience in my childhood.

Devin Ratray

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Asking the proper questions is the central action of transformation. Questions are the key that causes the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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I always wanted to go to a drama school.

April Pearson

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This is New York, and there's no law against being annoying.

William Kunstler

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