David Novak Quotes
Even when God chose Israel, he did not create the people of Israel as he created its human members, as natural beings. Instead, God formed the people of Israel from individual human beings already living in the natural world, calling them into a new historical identity.
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I believe that dogma is often evil.
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I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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I have quite a house. People come over and I go, 'I know, I'm sorry.'
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I'm an honest, open father.
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If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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Salesforce's Chatter is what convinced me that the company understood what is going on in the enterprise; this was the biggest attraction for me. I saw that Salesforce understands social.
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In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.
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I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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If the Knesset is a temple, then Feiglin is the idol. A Knesset where Feiglin presides is an impure Knesset.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.
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As a writer, you're not even at the party when you work in film. At best, you're the one laying out the canapes.
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I don't find R.E.M. to be nihilistic. There is a constant undertone of joyous optimism. I'm not going to kill myself to Patti Smith or R.E.M.
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... Our individual well-being is intimately connected both with that of all others and with the environment within which we live.... Our every action, our every deed, word, and thought, no matter how slight or inconsequential it may seem, has an implication not only for ourselves, but for all others, too.
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I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed.
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The Legislative has no right to absolute, arbitrary power over the lives and fortunes of the people; nor can mortals assume a prerogative not only too high for men, but for angels, and therefore reserved for the exercise of the Deity alone.
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Even when God chose Israel, he did not create the people of Israel as he created its human members, as natural beings. Instead, God formed the people of Israel from individual human beings already living in the natural world, calling them into a new historical identity.
