Ephraim Mirvis Quotes

The beth din is the court of the chief rabbi. I see myself taking an active role within the beth din.

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• Often, a serial killer has no felony record.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Record
  • Often
  • Killer

• We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • War
  • Always
  • Progress

• My parents could not be more Italian.

  

  Edoardo Ponti
  • Parents
  • More
  • Italian

• I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Great
  • Control
  • Voice

• I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Work
  • Athlete

• You never want to sound bitter about critics, because they're entitled to do their job, too, but I place much more trust in a person who I can look in the eye and someone who I know I share some kind of taste with - so my friends, for instance. For me, a critic is unknown and therefore irrelevant.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Job
  • Friends
  • Trust

• The best way to catch my attention is to throw a Twinkie near my face.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Attention
  • Best
  • Face

• Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Music
  • Long
  • End

• Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Responsibility
  • Lies
  • Ability

• Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Together
  • Lost
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• You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Life
  • Better
  • Lips

• I find theatre easier than films, because it gives you an environment of a dark hall, the audience concentrating with you... whereas, film sets are not conducive to long rehearsals, and it is difficult to pick up the emotions amidst all that is going on around you.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Up
  • Long
  • Dark

• I like having curves - I'm proud of them!

  

  Lacey Schwimmer
  • Proud
  • Like
  • Curves

• The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud.

  

  Harry A. Blackmun
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  • Fraud

• One of the reasons we don't have our deficit under control is because Republicans are wusses and won't tell their base a simple fact that everyone knows. We can't eliminate the deficit without raising some revenue... They're wusses.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Control
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  • Everyone

• All men were alien one to another, at times, not only aliens.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Men
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• We swear by the Quran and Sunnah, and we will not compromise with any infidel....Islam is the truth and all else is falsehood.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Truth
  • Quran

• In contrast to 50 years ago, few licensed humanists today embrace any view of the humanities that could in fact justify making them the centerpiece of a college curriculum.

  

  Leon Kass
  • Today
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• The novel space is a pure space. I'm nobody once I go into that room. I'm not gay, I'm not bald, I'm not Irish. I'm not anybody. I'm nobody. I'm the guy telling the story, and the only person that matters is the person reading that story, the target. It's to get that person to feel what I'm trying to dramatize.

  

  Colm Toibin
  • Trying
  • Guy
  • Reading

• I don't want to be about the way I look - my body, my hair, my makeup, all those boring things.

  

  Gemma Arterton
  • Hair
  • Makeup

• The key for us is to have assets that are easy for people to get to and they want to use. So Go90 right out of the gate will have certain things that are exclusive to Verizon, but you can download it if you're a Sprint customer or T-Mobile customer, and they're doing that. Things like the AwesomenessTV - exclusive content.

  

  Lowell McAdam
  • People

• With TV, you get on a show and you're there for 11 years playing the same character. I would pull my hair out. Yes, the money is good. But I'm really not in this business to chase dollars.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Good
  • Money
  • Business

• I love acting because it's empowering. It empowers me.

  

  Bryan Cranston
  • Empowering

• The beth din is the court of the chief rabbi. I see myself taking an active role within the beth din.

  

  Ephraim Mirvis