Ephraim Mirvis Quotes
Ethics, politics and psychology are all far more difficult to understand now that we know the depths to which human nature can sink.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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We were descended from royalty.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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Having my own family has made me realise there's more to life than chasing the next job.
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Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.
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I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
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All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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I played a nerdy guy on 'CSI: NY' for nine years. I want to be bad for a while. I want to be really, really bad.
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests.
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The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
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You wouldn't expect a Christian character to be an Indie rocker guy.
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One thing that has made us so successful is that we've never taken outside investment. That means we can concentrate on what our customers want - not what the stockholders or the VCs want.
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The fans sing my name around the world. When I meet fans, they ask, 'How are you? All good with your family?'
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There's a science fiction project we really want to make, but it's very expensive. Hopefully it will happen.
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If you look at slavery across all human history, and you sort of strip away the packaging, whether it's racialized or religious-based, and you look at the actual core of the slavery, it's one person completely controlling another one.
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I do not believe it is in our nature to love impartially. We deceive ourselves when we think we can love two beings, even our own children, equally. There is always a dominant affection.
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when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.
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I have to work hard to be punctual, to not lose my temper, take direction and be told what to do - and most of all listen rather than talk.
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So muß die Philosophie zwar die Möglichkeit erkennen, daß das Volk sich zu ihr erhebt, aber sie muß sich nicht zum Volk erniedrigen.
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Ethics, politics and psychology are all far more difficult to understand now that we know the depths to which human nature can sink.
