Jami Gertz Quotes
And you can't make a mistake when you are reading the Torah, so you have men standing around who will correct you if you are reading it incorrectly.
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I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.
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'Giving 2.0' frames giving as a learning experience and encourages everyone to make giving a part of your year-round life.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
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My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.
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I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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Statistically, Portland, Oregon has the most street kids, like kids that run away from home and live on the street. It's like a whole culture thing there. If you walk around on the streets, there are kids living on the streets, begging for money, but it's almost like a cool thing. They all just sit around and play music and squat.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
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Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
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We are more and more into technology. Everything is texting, and everything is instant. Flowers are completely impractical as a method of communication when you could just send a text.
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I think diversity is something that should be celebrated because it's who we are as a world, and little kids need to be able to turn on the TV and see real-world representations of themselves. It's very important.
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I like to see how other people work and be part of their stuff and see what I can do to be part of their worlds. Its a pretty big challenge, and that excites me.
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I'm happy people look at me as a role model.
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Many women have told me they remember where they were when they read the book, and how they felt suddenly that what they really thought or felt about things made sense.
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Oh, there's so much ego with men; in their head, they can't possibly think about Tesco's when they are doing Othello. Er, why not? They want to think that they are such geniuses they can't muddy their day with domesticity, and I've got no truck with it whatsoever.
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And you can't make a mistake when you are reading the Torah, so you have men standing around who will correct you if you are reading it incorrectly.
