Ephraim Mirvis Quotes
All societies wrestle with the scourge of prejudice, but validating that prejudice in statute makes a virtue of oppression.
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All the scientists and technologists should work in appropriate region, specifically the rural technologies, to transform Indian rural sector.
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We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day, but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.
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I don't get star-struck at all.
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It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more inventive with cooking.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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I kinda like the idea of having an album that's all me.
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But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.
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The whole idea that the Constitution of the United States would be used to advance a political agenda is absurd.
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I love all kinds of music. My dad's from London, so he loves David Bowie, the Stones, The Clash. I grew up with that influence while loving poetry and loving all kinds of current music.
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When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
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Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
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I don't remember anything from the Bills. It was rough there, but it is what it is. Now I'm here in the Super Bowl, just trying to enjoy that.
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What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.
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Once DNA acquires the ability to persist forever, the carriers become disposable. Essentially, our bodies are designed to last long enough to reproduce.
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It's every actor's dream to work in a hit show on Broadway and also shoot a television show.
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The way I was grew up gave me a slight fearlessness and a sense of independence. There are things about it that have definitely informed me. And then, as a parent, it's done the opposite. It's made me feel much more protective. There are boundaries in my kids' lives that I don't think I had.
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I'm an affectionate person.
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There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.
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The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.
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So in this case, Kalamas, don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies, by agreement through pondering views, by probability, or by the thought, 'This contemplative is our teacher.' When you know for yourselves that, 'These qualities are unskillful; these qualities are blameworthy; these qualities are criticized by the wise; these qualities, when adopted & carried out, lead to harm & to suffering' - then you should abandon them.
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Everybody thinks I drink beer but I actually like cider!
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'Female Convict 701: Scorpion' is based on a manga as is 'Lady Snowblood.' I saw 'Lady Snowblood' in the theater between writing issue three and issue four of the first arc of 'Pretty Deadly,' and I was really surprised how much I was influenced by it.
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All societies wrestle with the scourge of prejudice, but validating that prejudice in statute makes a virtue of oppression.
