Oscar Levant Quotes

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• What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.

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  Funny, Humility, Pride

  "On the 8th Day - God Laughed". Book by Gene Perret, p. 95, 1995.

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• My psychiatrist once said to me, 'Maybe life isn't for everyone'.

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  Said, Psychiatrist

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.

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  Men, Bridges, Double Standard

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• Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Memories

  Time, August 28, 1972.

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• The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

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  Funny, Humorous, Party

  "The Quotable Politician". Book by William B. Whitman, p. 30, 2003.

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• Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

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  Funny, Humorous, Flower

  "Fictional character: Jerry Sunborne". "Things We Lost in the Fire", www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Depression

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It'd be nice to please everyone but I thought it would be more interesting to have a point of view.

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  Nice, Views, Interesting

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• It's not what you are, it's what you don't become that hurts.

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  Hurt, Regret, Don't Regret

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• Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

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  Funny, Humor, Dining Alone

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I appeared before the draft board examiner during World War II, he asked me if I thought I could kill. "I don't know about strangers," I replied, "but friends, certainly."

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  Friends, War, Boards

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• I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.

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  Funny, Depressing, Patient

  "Memorable Quotations: Jewish Writers of the Past" edited by Carol A. Dingle, 2005.

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• There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.

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  Retirement, Pride, Two Sides

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• When I was young I looked like Al Capone, but I lacked his compassion.

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  Compassion, Als, Young

  Oscar Levant (1965). “The Memoirs of an Amnesiac”

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• My last picture for Warners was Romance on the High Seas. It was Doris Day's first picture; that was before she became a virgin.

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  Sea, Romance, Lasts

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• I'm a concert pianist, that's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment.

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  Way, Moments, Pretentious

  "Fictional character: Adam Cook". "An American in Paris", www.imdb.com. 1951.

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• Now that Marilyn Monroe is kosher, Arthur Miller can eat her.

  Oscar Levant

  Arthur, Kosher

  On "The Oscar Levant Show", as quoted in "They Knew Marilyn Monroe: Famous Persons in the Life of the Hollywood Icon" by Les Harding, 2012.

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• Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

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  Character, Luck, Enormous

  Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965) ch. 11

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• Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.

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  Funny, Sarcastic, Loneliness

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• I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.

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  Drinking, Beer, Funny Sarcastic

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Self-pity - it's the only pity that counts.

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  Self, Self Pity, Pity

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• I'm controversial. My friends either dislike me or hate me

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  Hate, Dislike Me, Controversial

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• I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.

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  Art, Men, Chaos

  "TIME" Magazine, May 5, 1958.

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• I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.

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  Selfish, Book, Reading

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• In some situations I was difficult, in odd moments impossible, in rare moments loathsome, but at my best unapproachably great.

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  Rare Moments, Impossible, Odd

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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