David Novak Quotes
A traditional rabbi is the man to whom the community and its members turn to rule on what Jewish law requires of them, particularly in cases of doubt.
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I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
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I've always had a natural affiliation with nature. If I wasn't an actor, I'd be some sort of biologist working in the field in Africa or something.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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I love so many styles of music.
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People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar; they want to connect more deeply.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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Year 2008 wiped out $19.2 trillion in US income... What if the money was spent on the Midwest of the United States?
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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Actors can't retire. What would they do?
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If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.
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Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.
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I started breaking out of my shell in sophomore and junior year.
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My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.
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Strange – I'm not much of a film person. I love watching films, but they don't stay with me the way books do. Stranger still, because my husband is a screenwriter!
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From my perspective, probably women are won over by people who are sweet and respectful and courteous and kind and funny. I think those are the things that win women over.
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We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.
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Nolan has the strangest affect on people. You know, I think there's something very sad and little boy about him, but at the same time the way he goes about everything is so awkward and obnoxious. He can never say the right thing, you know? And I think if he just didn't try so hard and calmed down, people might actually like him a bit more!
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When the children were very small, I worked in the morning only, and then gradually, as they spent full days at school, I could spend full days at work.
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Freedom is the only thing we must demand in life, for all other good things stem from it
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I should say that I usually have a good experience on Amtrak. Still, if Amtrak could replace electric horns with steam whistles, they could make big strides. A horn is a horn is a horn, but a steam whistle is a voice and a song. People used to know which engineer was running which engine based on the call of the whistle.
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I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous.
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A traditional rabbi is the man to whom the community and its members turn to rule on what Jewish law requires of them, particularly in cases of doubt.
