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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Vegas has the Whitman's Sampler of audiences. They come from all different places, so you have to do some crowd psychology. You have to find the heartbeat of the room. It doesn't shift my jokes, but it shifts my timing and my attention.
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If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma. And we're able to accept trauma with certain groups, like with soldiers, for instance - we understand that they face trauma and that trauma can be connected to things like depression or acts of violence later on in life.
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Remember, it is a deep principle of our nature not to regard the safety of those who do not regard their own. If you are indifferent to your own safety, you must not be surprised if those less interested should become more so.
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The scientist who recognizes God knows only the God of Newton. To him the God imagined by Laplace and Comte is wholly inadequate. He feels that God is in nature, that the orderly ways in which nature works are themselves the manifestations of God's will and purpose. Its laws are his orderly way of working.
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I think the first reason that we should love our enemies, and I think this was at the very center of Jesus' thinking, is this: that hate for hate only intensifies the existence of hate and evil in the universe.
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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.
