Jacob K. Javits Quotes
Birth and death are the most singular events we experience - and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a thing of beauty, not ignobility.
Quotes to Explore
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The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
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I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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I began to study martial arts because it was a great form of exercise, and I knew it would help my acting career. Martial arts reminded me of dancing. It has helped me learn fight sequences quicker.
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I am that weirdo that chooses the difficult route down the side of the street.
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Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
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There's nothing like the buzz of live theater. You put it out there and receive an instant reaction: laughing, crying, yelling, applauding.
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I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.
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It's not like my old self – I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.
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We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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42% of our management team are women. So we've reset the goal to 50% by 2017. Because that's when Westpac becomes 200 years old as an institution - the oldest bank, and indeed the oldest company in Australia. So that's a lovely point to reflect on.
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Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.
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Have confidence in everything. No matter what it is that you're doing, know that you can do it better than anyone.
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So many people have asked me about getting their own LEGO Oscar that I submitted it to LEGO Ideas so that everyone has the ability to get one.
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I loved every day I was in politics. But I got out at the right time. I never miss it.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way.
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A book is a journey: It's a thing you agree to go on with somebody, and I think every reader's experience of a book is going to be different.
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...for her whom in life thou dids't abhor, in death thou shalt adore...
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Birth and death are the most singular events we experience - and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a thing of beauty, not ignobility.
