A Quote by Primo Levi

I'm a libertine, but it's not my specialty.

Primo Levi

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Libertine Specialty

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Primo Levi
Italian - Scientist
July 31, 1919 - April 11, 1987

Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.

Jean Cocteau

I used to do fight sequences, and I started to get self-conscious about fight sequences, because invariably the other person would get hurt, and you never want anyone to be hurt on a film, let alone you being responsible. The great thing about working with guys who have spent their life choreographing fights for wrestling is that that's what they do. That's their specialty. Their specialty is selling taking hits. Their specialty is selling explosive hits without making a contact or doing too much damage.

Vin Diesel

You cannot do without one specialty. You must have some base-line to measure the work and attainments of others. For a general view of the subject, study the history of the sciences. Broad knowledge of all Nature has been the possession of no naturalist except Humboldt, and general relations constituted his specialty.

Louis Agassiz

The idea of losing the three at Hayward Field and the idea of losing my specialty to someone who wasn't running his specialty. Mostly, the idea of losing in front of my people. They haven't forgotten about me.

Steve Prefontaine

Traditional PCs face competition from specialty products like Palm Pilots and from the servers that provide the nodes in computer networks. Microsoft's Windows CE hasn't done too well in the specialty-device market, and its Windows NT faces strong competition for server customers.

Virginia Postrel

The transition from libertine to prig was so complete.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The press is like the air, a chartered libertine.

William Pitt

I'd describe myself as a sexual libertarian - but I'm not a libertine. "To each his own" is my motto.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.

George Bancroft

I realized I'm not the kind of person who wants to go with the flow and fit in. I'm an agitator, I'm opinionated, I'm a libertine and leader.

Alexis Arquette

I started off in this dreadful, vulgar film called 'The Libertine.' I was just learning. I needed the money.

Audrey Tautou

I, Jeffrey Wright, the actor, actually signed on to the 'Westworld' Delos website. My profile came back as a Libertine, which is probably reasonably accurate.