Jake Epstein Quotes
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Are we going to solve the issue of poverty? Absolutely not. Are we going to have an impact? I'm committed to it, and if we don't, I'll have no regrets because we're going to try everything we can.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.
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As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.
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To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.
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I've been wrestling since I was 18 years old. And within the first five months of my wrestling career, I'd already had three concussions. And for years after that, I would get a concussion here and there, and it gets to the point that when you've been wrestling for 16 years, that adds up to a lot of concussions.
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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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I think there are narratives going on all the time that we think of as tangential - up until they turn out to be deciding factors in our lives.
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You've got to be willing to put the time into seeing who's got talent and who's going to do a great job.
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St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.
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If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
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The best way to learn is live, in person, cooking, feeling, smelling and tasting, but TV is the second-best thing to that; it's a halfway facsimile.
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There was, of course, a global financial crisis. But our Labour predecessors left Britain exceptionally vulnerable and damaged: more personal debt than any other major economy; a dangerously inflated property bubble; and a bloated banking sector behaving as masters, not the servants of the people.
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Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.
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To the more judicial and scientific temper of our day their invective would seem overdrawn and their sympathy would seem partisanship. In Jeremiah and in the prophetic psalms the poor as a class are made identical with the meek and godly, and 'rich' and 'wicked' are almost synonymous terms.
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If we do not solve our civilizational crisis - a disintegrating culture, dying populations, and invasions unresisted - the children born in 2006 will witness in their lifetimes the death of the West. In our hearts we know what must be done. We must stop the invasion. But do our leaders have the vision and will to do it?
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I don't watch that much comedy. I think it's professional jealousy. That and a lack of support for my community.
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Because he never raises his eyes to the great and the meaningful, the philistine has taken experience as his gospel. It has become for him a message about life's commonness. But he has never grasped that there exists something other than experience, that there are values-inexperienceable-which we serve.
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If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
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Uncertainty is where things happen. It is where the opportunities - for success, for happiness, for really living - are waiting.
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You've got to be flexible. Directors do a massive amount of planning and homework, and if after all that your director decides to throw it all out of the window and shoot spontaneously, then you must follow his lead.
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My sis, Gabi, is also an actor and singer.
