Levels Quotes - Page 36

• Baseball is about talent, hard work, and strategy. But at the deepest level, it's about love, integrity, and respect.

  Pat Gillick

  Baseball, Integrity, Hard Work

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• The pack of media brayed and bellowed outside the house for seven weeks. Sol realized then what he had known and forgotten about very small communities: they were frequently annoying, always parochial, sometimes prying on a one-to-one level, but never had they subscribed to the vicious legacy of the so-called "public's right to know".

  Dan Simmons

  Media, House, Community

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.352, Spectra

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• It is extremely important that adequate provision be made for reasonable levels of income to them, for the care of the children which they must leave at home or in school, and for protection of the family unit. One of the prime objectives of the Commission on the Status of Women, which I appointed 18 months ago, is to develop a program to accomplish these purposes.

  John F. Kennedy

  Children, Home, School

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.465, Best Books on

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• There are peaks and valleys in anything and that is especially true for the music business. It is very inconsistent. But if you are wise, you can let those downs really bring you to another level of your personality.

  Bryan White

  Wise, Business, Personality

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• It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes.

  Billy West

  Business, Onions, Layers

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. June 14, 2005.

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• I have also noticed that when a rider who had confidence in his ability was defeated, after doing his level best to win, always received an ovation from the gathering.

  Major Taylor

  Confidence, Winning, Gathering

  Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”

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• I really like the Observer. I think I'd love to have a column with a broad reach that would enable me to do some proper reporting, but keep it on sort of a humorous level. I've always had a very happy experience writing for them.

  Toby Young

  Humorous, Writing, Thinking

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• Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience - a group history - that may be tapped into at will in years to come.

  John Thorn

  Father, Son, Years

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• I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let him interfere too much. So criticism from him I kind of wear as a badge of honor.

  Michael Scheuer

  Leadership, Senior, Thinking

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• I really want younger audience members to see kids in their early 20's playing Frank's music and to be inspired to take things to a higher level themselves.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Music, Kids, Want

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• Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references to the spectators or to the fictive nature of the play.

  Paul Watzlawick

  Nature, Play, Comedy

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• I always admired Walt's optimism. He seemed to know the direction he was going to. When I was at the studio, I remember he kept driving all of us back down to a more fundamental level all the time.

  John Hench

  Artist, Optimism, Fundamentals

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• I want every man on the force to try his best, his level best, to try to avoid arresting anyone. I know that this going to take great will power but try.

  Chill Wills

  Power, Men, Trying

  "Character: Police Captain". "Where the Boys Are", www.imdb.com. 1960.

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• I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.

  Ed Rendell

  Thinking, Ethical Standards, Usa

  "Gov. Rendell and Rep. Issa on 'FNS'". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. May 31, 2010.

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• You tend to meet on a more regular basis with people in your industry, and reality being what it is, you tend to meet with them at the particular level that you occupy; so that develops a fraternity relationship.

  Lew Wasserman

  Relationship, Reality, People

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• Well we have a good working relationship with Microsoft at the development level. But let's not kid ourselves, this is a company with enormous resources and talented people, and there is a certain pride that comes along with that for them and for us.

  John W. Thompson

  Relationship, Kids, Pride

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• I have a great relationship with animals, and with children. I get to their level. I try to see the way a child looks at the world, it's hugely different.

  Story Musgrave

  Relationship, Children, Animal

  "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• We never really felt a real level of respect. The fame was fantastic, but that wasn't that important to me, because for every million people that loved me I focused on the one that hated me.

  Donnie Wahlberg

  Respect, Real, People

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• A lot of the high-level sports are really in your mind.

  Ronald Graham

  Sports, Mind, High Level

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• I have more perspective now, and am happier now. It's not that I don't want success, but I now know I can have success at a lower level and make much more money doing it by myself. I make $6 or $7 bucks a record vs. nothing off those other records.

  Matthew Sweet

  Success, Perspective, Records

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• I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.

  Nina Totenberg

  Wisdom, Thinking, Age

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• Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work.

  William Julius Wilson

  Work, Organization, Welfare

  "When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor". Book by William Julius Wilson, 1996.

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• We want playing our games to entertain people on many different levels. Deeper down, I want to make a connection with the player, and it's the way, to me, of saying to the person playing the game that they're not alone in the world.

  Tim Schafer

  Player, Playing Games, People

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• All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.

  Ferguson Jenkins

  Eight, Support, Charity

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• During these two and a half years that have followed the war, the most urgent problem we have encountered was: to activate the public enterprises, to bring them up to the level that international markets demand and we are just now getting them prepared for privatization.

  Ibrahim Rugova

  War, Years, Two

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