Ephraim Mirvis Quotes
All political parties share in the responsibility to rid our society of anti-Semitism, but we cannot achieve that objective with political posturing or empty promises of action never to be fulfilled.
Quotes to Explore
-
I was born and raised in Manhattan; I didn't realize that I, in all my androgyny, was a freak to the rest of this country.
-
Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
-
I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
-
Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
-
I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
-
I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.
-
I stopped watching horror movies after I watched 'Candyman' when I was – I don't know, fifteen or something. I remember my sister rented it, 'Candyman,' and it really, really scared me. And so it was only after I found myself in a horror film that I really went back and kind of rediscovered the genre.
-
Man, y'know, I'm a music guy. I like a lot of different things. It depends on the time of the day and the situation.
-
The epic story of the West is the development in the 19th century of a mass prosperity the world had never seen and its near-disappearance in one nation after another in the 20th.
-
If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
-
I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
-
Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.
-
I don't know where my fashion sense comes from, exactly. I've always been interested in, not necessarily being unique, but not necessarily sticking to the preexisting paradigm - whether it be clothes or music or whatever.
-
Quickly, after I landed in England, I found out ways to get scholarships. England turned out to be a very encouraging place for me.
-
On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.
-
Wine is something to enjoy. We get sick and tired of people who pick it apart and talk about its 'saucy nuances.'
-
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-
Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
-
Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.
-
Many in the media reported that I said Papa John's is going to close stores and cut jobs because of Obamacare. I never said that.
-
People are overweight and starving at the same time. It's a tragedy for both the individual and society.
-
Those who take action have a disproportionate impact. The power of one is to move many.
-
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
-
All political parties share in the responsibility to rid our society of anti-Semitism, but we cannot achieve that objective with political posturing or empty promises of action never to be fulfilled.
