David Ben-Gurion Quotes
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You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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I've learned that the key is to fight with no pressure.
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Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.
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Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.
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Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
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An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
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The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
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Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
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When I was a kid, I wasn't looking at the small-budget films myself. I was looking at 'James Bond' and all the major films, so I still have that energy. I still love those films.
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You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.
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As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment.
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I've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.
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I had an idea when I was 18 or 19 to start tutoring people, like the way that people get tutored in saxophone or guitar, but for production. I really enjoyed it, but I don't have time for that any more.
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I think when you're telling a story from inside of you that's genuine, people connect with it.
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The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about.
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I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.
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I'd rather promote New York than anything else in this world because New York to me means the world.
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I believe that the highest virtue is to be happy, living in the greatest truth, not submitting to the falsehood of these personaltimes.
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It's really important that folks be able to speak out.
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In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
