James Wolfensohn Quotes
If you have Palestinians who have no hope, who don't have a job, who've used up all their resources, the notion of getting rid of violence is a dream.
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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I love make-up and the process of transforming my face for a night out, but I definitely don't believe in wearing it every day. I think it's really important to be comfortable with the way you look without it.
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I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I grew up in a very Jewish neighbourhood and thought the whole world was like that. My parents were secular, but I went to a very Orthodox Jewish school, and I really got into it. I found it all fascinating, and I was just kind of really attracted to the metaphysical questions.
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I'm very grateful to God for what he gives me. Victories, remarkable victories, but you have to go through the defeats. That is why I praise God for everything.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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When I first got to L.A., I thought every person in a limo was a star.
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I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
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Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.
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I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.
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Addictive drugs misuse the brain’s existing pre-programming, activating reward mechanisms and extreme feelings of pleasure. When stimulated, the brain’s pleasure centres emit signals to repeat the behaviour. In this sense, the brain is pre-programmed to feel good.
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The point at which we worked with some of these actors, they weren't really stars yet. Nicolas Cage was not a big star when we did Raising Arizona. A lot of these people were also virtually unknown, too, when we worked with them first.
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Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.
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If you have Palestinians who have no hope, who don't have a job, who've used up all their resources, the notion of getting rid of violence is a dream.
