Quotes with level-headed

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  • Bob Beamon When you can't read or write at 14 or 15, in most cases you're headed for trouble, and trouble was finding me.
    Bob Beamon
    American track and field athlete (1946 - )
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  • Carl Hiaasen When you put on the suits, when you pretend you're honest and you're robbing at a far higher level, these guys deserve to... well, to be in my novels, and I have special fates reserved for them.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Bill Paxton When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level.
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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  • Boris Yeltsin While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bjarne Stroustrup With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those be clean, well documented, and simple to use.
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    Danish computer scientist (1950 - )
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  • Bob Anderson You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.
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  • Ben Gibbard You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Bill Paxton You don't really get to pick and chose what you would like to be doing. But I've been very fortunate, and I think water seeks its own level. You do gravitate towards things that you would get off on.
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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  • Bode Miller You feel the Olympics and you get chills and nervous and a little scared. You go through the emotional roller coaster at what it's like to compete at the Olympic level and you let that run through your whole body.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Joe Paterno You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.
    Joe Paterno
    American Football coach
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  • Blythe Danner You learn more discipline in the theatre than you do in movies or TV. You're on stage every night and you have to sustain your energy level tor several hours.
    Blythe Danner
    American actress (1943 - )
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Les Brown You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • John D. Mcdonald You return and again take the proper course, guided by what? - By the picture in mind of the place you are headed for...
    John D. Mcdonald
    American writer of novels and short stories (1916 - 1986)
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  • Les Brown Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Baroness Orczy Your mock saint who stands in a niche is not a woman if she have not suffered, still less a woman if she have not sinned. Fall at the feet of your idol as you wish, but drag her down to your level after that - the only level she should ever reach, that of your heart.
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  • Walter Bagehot A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Erica Jong Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed ''Wisdom.'' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: ''Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.''
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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