Oscar Levant Quotes

• Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional ‘rights’ in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people’s right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.

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  Tags in Oppose, Shape, Strike

• If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

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  Tags in Ending, Story

• I am no more humble than my talents require.

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  Tags in Humility, Talent

• I have an unfortunate personality.

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  Tags in Character, Unfortunate, Personality

• We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations.

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  Topics in Respect

  Tags in Blind

• I envy people who drink – at least they know what to blame everything on.

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  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Envy, Drinking, Blame

• Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.

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  Tags in Afford, Directing, Modest, Nobody

• Gluttony is not a secret vice.

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  Tags in Vice, Virtue

• I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don’t think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

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  Topics in Art

  Tags in Posterity, Remembered

• I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

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  Tags in Behavior

• Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

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  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Prejudice, Abandonment, Human Nature, Hate, Race

• I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I’m pretty careful to lose most of them.

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  Tags in Myself, Feel

• Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.

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  Tags in Hollywood, Purpose

• Our heroes are fighting to bring stability to the Middle East, and they have put pressure on all of the tyrannies of the Middle East. They have taken a stand against tyranny, against terrorists, and for the prospect of decent societies throughout that region.

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  Tags in Prospect, Terrorists, Tyranny

• I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

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  Tags in Actors And Acting, Beard

• Fake is as old as the Eden tree.

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  Tags in Fake, Tree

• They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud p*es.

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  Tags in Mud, Today

• At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.

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  Tags in Solid, Untenable, Appear

• So little time and so little to do.

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  Tags in Time

• The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

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  Tags in Excite, Hamlet, Entertainment

Oscar Levant (74)

Birth:	27th December, 1906
Death:	14th August, 1972
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Author, Composer, Pianist

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