Yitzhak Navon Quotes
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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I write in a small office at home.
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Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.
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One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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It's really important to me that the public have confidence in their criminal justice system. We don't operate very well if the public doesn't trust us.
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I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.
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My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
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I am convinced after more than 50 years in the field of motivation that anyone who wants to learn to look at life and/or their circumstances in a positive light can do so.
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If I stayed in London, I probably would have gotten more work. I've never wanted to be thought of as an 'It' girl, someone who rides on the coattails of my mother.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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I had no interest in sports so I didn't make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown.
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My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.
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It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.
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I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
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I'm very painful to deal with when I create a shoe.
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People just get kicks out of making other people sad.
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Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action.
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When I was backstage at Comic-Con, about to go out and do the panel for Thor, and Joss Whedon ran up and introduced himself, I already almost passed out, right then. And then, he said, "I've been meaning to call you. You have a big part in The Avengers. Can we introduce you as part of the cast?" It was pretty Make-A-Wish Foundation. I was pretty sure I was dying and nobody had told me yet.
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I'm not always what I think I am, but I am what I think.
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One way or another, Gaza's residents must live in peace with Israel.
