“It's something that people relate to - and I hope my kid doesn't relate to - but there's a level of believability in playing complex characters. You know, Christopher Walken has done some hilarious comedies, De Niro. There's great room for complexity and darkness to do well in comedies.” PeopleKnowsWellsDoneCharacterKidsLevelsRoomsDarknessComedyComplexesRelateComplexityDe NiroComplex CharactersBelievability Author:Jeremy Sisto
“I never thought we'd ever have a black president. President Obama has done such a tremendous job He just has been unable to get what he needs to be moved at the level it should be moved.” NeedsShouldHas BeensDoneJobsBlackPresidentLevelsMovedPresident Obama Author:Hank Aaron
“Think it is just a matter of... well look how long it took Shawn Colvin to reach the level that she has. Believe me, that girl has done everything except stand behind the cash register at Tower and take the money.” ThinkingBelieveWellsLooksLongMatterDoneGirlLevelsBehindsCashBelieve In MeTowersRegisterThat Girl Author:Christine Lavin
“All handling by IPCC of the Sea Level questions have been done in a way that cannot be accepted and that certainly not concur with modern knowledge of the mode and mechanism of sea level changes.” WayHas BeensDoneLevelsSeaModernAcceptedMechanismConcur Author:Nils-Axel Morner
“Obesity now contributes to the death of more than 360,000 Americans a year. The incidence of childhood obesity is now at epidemic levels. Alarm bells are going off all over the place. But our government has done virtually nothing.” YearsDoneGovernmentLevelsChildhoodBellsAlarmsObesityEpidemicsIncidenceChildhood Obesity Author:Tom Harkin
“The most important thing is to just do it. If I work at a higher level I have responsibility to do better than what I've done before. Sometimes the best happens - beyond possibility. Just do it. Can't worry about it.” IfsImportantSometimesDoneHappensLevelsResponsibilityWorryPossibilityHigherImportanceImportant ThingsJust Do ItHigher Level Author:LeRoy Neiman
“The legal system doesn't work. Or more accurately, it doesn't work for anyone except those with the most resources. Not because the system is corrupt. I don't think our legal system (at the federal level, at least) is at all corrupt. I mean simply because the costs of our legal system are so astonishingly high that justice can practically never be done.” ThinkingMeanDoneJusticeLevelsCostResourcesLegal System Author:Lawrence Lessig
“We need to remain alert to what happens to the body when it is mediatised. Too often, the mediatised body is an anaesthetised body. I would be the last person to argue that the body signifies at some basic level that precedes or transcends its cultural inscriptions. Nevertheless, there is an ethical imperative not to conflate the body with its representations and mediations, but to remember that there is an actual body there somewhere, experiencing the consequences of what is being done to it.” NeedsPersonsDoneBodyHappensWould BeLastsRememberLevelsConsequenceArguingEthicalNeverthelessRepresentationImperativesBeing DoneMediationInscriptions Author:Philip Auslander
“If you ever come to one of my seminars, you will notice I have volunteer workers. When I work with individuals like that, I expect a level of excellence displayed. Everything has to be done perfectly.” IfsDoneIndividualLevelsExcellenceWorkersVolunteerRamaSeminars Author:Frederick Lenz
“I've got many, many demons that affect me on many, many levels. A few years ago, I was convinced of that - I thought I truly was possessed by the devil. I remember sitting through the Exorcist a dozen times, saying to myself, 'Yeah, I can relate to that. I really wish I knew why I've done some of the things I've done over the years. I don't know if I'm a medium for some outside source. Whatever it is, frankly, I hope it's not what I think it is - Satan.”” IfsThinkingKnowsYearsI CanDoneRememberWishLevelsSourceDevilSittingYears AgoYeahConvincedMediumsRelateSatanDemonDozenPossessedExorcist Author:Ozzy Osbourne
“One thing you can't beat in this world is time. I learnt that the hard way. You can't play basketball forever. You can't play football forever. You can't bodybuild forever. I mean you CAN do it, but not at a high level against younger guys who have more time and have not reached their peaks yet. There's only so much the body can do and once you're done, you can't go back in time.” WorldWayMeanHardDonePlayBodyGuyCan DoLevelsForeverOne ThingThis WorldFootballBasketballBeatsMore TimeYou Can Do ItHigh LevelHard WayBack In TimeGo Back In Time Author:Ronnie Coleman
“men are not born with a faculty for the universal and ... women are not reduced at birth to the particular. The universal has been, and is continually, at every moment, appropriated by men. It does not happen by magic, it must be done. It is an act, a criminal act, perpetrated by one class against another. It is an act carried out at the level of concepts, philosophy, politics.” MenDoeHas BeensDonePhilosophyMomentsHappensBornLevelsClassMagicParticularBirthConceptsUniversalCriminalsFaculty Book:The Straight Mind: And Other Essays Source: The Straight Mind: And Other Essays
“Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.” KindLongStillsDoneChristianJobsFightingNextSleepLevelsMorningStruggleAchievePoetWake UpJewBuddhistGoing To SleepBeing FreeGood ChristianNightfallZen Buddhist Author:Maya Angelou
“When you're serving at the local level, you have to build strong personal relationships to get things done.” DoneStrongLevelsLocalsServingThings DonePersonal RelationshipsStrong Person Author:Wendy Davis
“This work of connecting our light to the world does not need to be done through a mass movement, or by millions of people. . . .The real work is always done by a small number of individuals. What matters is the level of participation: whether we dare to make a real commitment to the work of the soul.” PeopleWorldNeedsDoeRealSoulMatterDoneLightIndividualLevelsNumbersMillionsMovementMassCommitmentDareWhat MattersParticipationConnectingSmall NumbersReal Work Author:Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
“I try to stay level-headed and it's always the way I've been. Sometimes your personality out in the real world, you want to take that into your sport because that's where you feel comfortable. You never want to try to do something that's not you or you don't feel comfortable doing. That's where you get in trouble. It's the only way I've played sports and done things. I'm low-key, but I'm very competitive and hate to lose.” WorldWayWantFeelsTryingRealSometimesDoneHateSportsLosesLevelsTroubleKeysPersonalityComfortableLowsReal WorldLow KeyLevel Headed Author:Eli Manning
“As much as I'd like to think I'm an expert in quarterbacks I'm probably not. But, I think college quarterbacks are put in positions where they have to do a lot of the things that are done at the professional level. The collegiate quarterback probably does on average a little more running than a pro quarterback. But outside of that, I think they're faced with some of the same difficult decisions and choices.” ThinkingLittlesDoeDoneRunningChoicesDifficultDecisionLevelsPositionCollegeAverageExpertsNflQuarterbackDifficult Decisions Author:Ted Thompson
“To him who has thought, or done, or suffered much, the level days of his childhood seem at an immeasureable distance, far off as the age of chivalry, or as the line of Sesostris.” DoneSeemsAgePastLinesLevelsChildhoodDistanceChivalry Book:Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous: Critical and miscellaneous writings Source: Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous: Critical and miscellaneous writings
“A lot is being done to bring additional protective measures, particularly the critical infrastructure locations around the United States, ... There is a very active ... program of coordination on this particular period of time with both public and private entities and at the federal, state and local levels.” StatesDoneLevelsUnitedUnited StatesParticularPeriodsProgramCriticalActiveLocalsEntityLocationInfrastructureProtectiveBeing DoneCoordination Author:Condoleezza Rice
“Cooking is work that is traditionally done by working-class people. The work itself is not glamorous. It's repetitive, and it's a lot closer to factory work than art, whatever level you're doing it at. Certainly chefs are used to living like rock 'n' rollers to some extent, inasmuch as we get a lot of those fringe benefits without having to learn how to play guitar.” PeopleArtDonePlayUsedLevelsClassRocksBenefitsCookingGuitarFactoriesChefWorking ClassFringeGlamorousRepetitive Author:Anthony Bourdain
“Movies are designed to tell us stories, engage us on an emotional level and keep our attention. This can be done with a wide range of emotional triggers - Love, adrenaline, comedy. But fear is a highly potent sensation.” DoneStoriesLevelsAttentionComedyEmotionalWideRangeSensationsTriggersAdrenaline Author:David Hayter
“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.” WayNeedsEndsCountryDoneLevelsExampleYouthAreasDebtExtrasUnemploymentSpainGreeceStimulus Author:Dalia Grybauskaite
“There were times in my life when I said, "Oh God, I'm making a terrible, terrible mistake here." And on another level it looked as if that's exactly what I had done. All of us can look back across our lives and see what we thought was a disaster was actually a blessing - from a long-term perspective, it was a blessing. With practice, we can shorten the length of time between "what a dumb mistake I've made" and "what a brilliant choice that was.” IfsLooksLongMadeSaidDoneChoicesTermLevelsMistakePracticeOur LivesPerspectiveTerribleBlessingBrilliantDisasterDumbLong TermLength Author:Richard Bach
“The problem is that every time people have deviated from the Disney playbook in hand-drawn animation, they've done so with staff that are nowhere near Disney-level talent or Disney-level budgets.” PeopleDoneProblemHandsLevelsTalentBudgetsStaffAnimationPlaybooks Author:Brad Bird
“One thing I would like to do, as the director, I would really like to shoot the movie widescreen, 2.35:1, which we haven't done in any of the movies yet and I think that would really provide another opportunity for scares and suspense, particularly because since Chucky, our villain, is only two feet tall, it makes sense to define the space horizontally rather than vertically. I think that will take it to another level.” ThinkingTwoDoneOpportunitySpaceLevelsOne ThingFeetHavensDirectorsSuspenseMake SenseTallScareVillainAnother Opportunity Author:David Kirschner
“Having emotional connections to things that don't really exist, like looking at a green ball and really loving that green ball, and being sad whether it's around or not. Stuff like that. I've never done acting at this level before so it was a huge challenge for me. It was a hurdle to overcome just to survive.” DoneStuffChallengesLevelsActingEmotionalHugeConnectionsOvercomingBallsGreenHurdleBeing SadEmotional Connection Author:Shia LaBeouf
“You create a friendship on a level that you've never done before. The basic kind of experience is to basically give love to total strangers all the time, and that really changed everything in me. And this piece transformed me more than any other one before. I saw my entire life differently. What do I have to do? What is my passion on this planet? I'm much more focused than I ever was before.” GivingKindDonePassionLevelsSawsPiecesChangedPlanetsStrangerFocusedTransformedMy Passion Author:Marina Abramovic