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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We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
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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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My father went to work every day, and it's my job to go to work, too. Some days will be good, some won't be so good, but I have to go to work.
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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'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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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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The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.
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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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If people are offering help, it's because they want to and you have to let them do it. It just makes life so much easier. You just have to put your pride aside.
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At the end of the day, nobody cares how much you tried, what the deal was, or if you were a good guy or a bad guy.
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I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.
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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.
