David Ben-Gurion Quotes
There are eleven million Jews in the world. I don't say that all of them will come here, but I expect several million, and with natural increase I can quite imagine a Jewish state of ten million.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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I think I'm a guy who loves to play defense. I have a great time in the outfield. I think it's fun robbing guys on hits - there are plenty of times you're gonna be robbed as a hitter.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
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We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!
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I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.
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The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!
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Human rights, no matter whom they affect, are something that should matter to all of us. It's always been a part of my life.
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The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.
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Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.
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The idea of watching an entire film basically from one person's perspective - and not even really from their perspective, but it's probably the most intimately shot film that's in any of these categories. If you're not familiar with Son of Saul, basically it's a film about a Jewish guy who's in concentration camp, but he helps dispose of the bodies after they leave the gas chamber. So, you watch the entire movie looking at Saul's face and looking at his interactions with people.
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What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the Cold War?
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There are eleven million Jews in the world. I don't say that all of them will come here, but I expect several million, and with natural increase I can quite imagine a Jewish state of ten million.
