"When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature."

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#Acting Quotes #Literature Quotes #Columbia Quotes

“The mind's job is to validate what it thinks.”
“In the face of adversity, you find out if you're a fighter or a quitter. It's all about getting up after you've been knocked down.”
“Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety.”
“Beauty is startling. She wears a gold shawl in the summer and sells seven kinds of honey at the flea market. She is young and old at once, my daughter and my grandmother. In school she excelled in mathematics and poetry. . . Beauty will dance with anyone who is brave enough to ask her.”
“I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.”
“Every stage of my life set the scene for the next, and at each point all I had to do was say "yes" and not think too much about the consequences.”
“I hate when you go into a nice restaurant - someplace where youre going to spend good money - and there are kids in there crying.”
“Organizations may be better able to tame optimism than individuals are.”

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