Bernard Malamud Quotes
I think I said 'All men are Jews except they don't know it.' I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it's an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.
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Music will always be my greatest passion.
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Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
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It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.
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See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.
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EO 11110 did not order the printing of Silver Certificates. It ordered the amendment of a previous executive order so that the United States Code would authorize or 'empower' the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Silver Certificates if the occasion should arise.
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I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.
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You can't legislate or litigate good, healthy behavior but we must be willing to educate people at an early age about the affects of unhealthy living.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.
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I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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I realize that I'm not going to be everybody's cup of tea, and that's okay. I think that's the point of music.
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My dad has actually really influenced me musically. I have a weird love for '80s and '90s music. A lot of people are like, 'Are you serious? It's so lame.' But my dad always plays that in the car whenever we're together.
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It's kind of funny, with all of the different outlets that come from acting that you could try, I would love to direct and kind of be involved in art direction, too.
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I look up to Andrea Boccelli and Sarah Brightman. The best part about 'America's Got Talent' was performing with her!
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But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.
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The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.
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I am the most tense, annoying person in the world.
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A room full of hundreds, let alone thousands, of people is not my most fun thing in the world.
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Fundamentalism does mean reading quite conservatively and literally, saying 'the Bible is the word of God and we have to follow it. What it says is this.'
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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I felt naked. I felt as perhaps a bird may feel in the clear air knowing the hawk wings above and will swoop. I began to feel the need of fellowship. I wanted to question, wanted to speak, wanted to relate my experience. What is this spirit in man that urges him forever to depart from happiness, to toil and to place himself in danger?
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I think I said 'All men are Jews except they don't know it.' I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it's an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.
