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.
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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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It's a rum state of affairs when you feel like punching a jar of mayonnaise in the face.
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Classroom teachers can play an active role in instructing children about appropriate conduct online, even where there is no school policy on the issue. By promoting public discussion about their lives on the Internet, teachers and students can work together to share advice and develop 'rules to type by' or similar Internet-minded guidance.
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Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.
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Only Mary Queen of Scots challenged the prevailing orthodoxy when she wore white to mourn the death of Lord Darnley in 1567, earning the title of ‘The White Queen’.
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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.
