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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Jochum had said, 'You keep asking the universe 'How ought I to live?' But it can't answer.'
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In the Pythagorean system, thinking about numbers, or doing mathematics, was an inherently masculine task. Mathematics was associated with the gods, and with transcendence from the material world; women, by their nature, were supposedly rooted in this latter, baser realm.
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Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet - the only one in the whole Milky Way - with a century of transportation whoopee.
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If I'm working on a film, I'll do sit-ups for before I shoot. Like, 100 in the morning or something.
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Instinct reveals itself as self-concentrating, self-edifying it is limitation. Intuition produces self-denial, self-destruction； it is expansion. Culture can develop both. If it develops instinct, animal nature appears. Then culture destroys the intuitive capacity which men have even found in a primitive state.
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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.
