Jeffrey Archer Quotes
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The State of Israel must be at the forefront of global science - in physics, in mathematics, in medicine, in biology.
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I don't just want to be a cute girl in a comedy or the actress who just does the same thing over and over again. I want to play roles that are distinct. I want to have a more varied career like actresses Viola Davis or Angela Bassett - those are the people that I grew up watching and admiring.
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I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have never lost a case have not had enough hard cases. But there are very difficult cases out there.
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You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.
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I think Yahoo is a great company, with great assets.
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We think of divinity as something infinitely big, but it is also infinitely small - the condensation of your breath on your palms, the ridges in your fingertips, the warm space between your shoulder and the shoulder next to you.
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The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people had a lot of stories not unlike mine. Everybody comes from somewhere else. Everyone's got a Polish grandmother, some kind of metamorphosis in their family circumstances. That's a very big thing - the experience of not living where you started.
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I am not playing for any lobby. I am playing for national lobby. I will ignore lobby. Anybody has useful suggestion, they can give it to me. The history will speak about it.
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One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That's the case with any good series.
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With the world changing fast, we needed capital for investments. There's only so much bandwidth in your own balance sheet.
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I think it is really important that people at least have some potentially difficult discussions about what their expectations are - and not just financially - prior to getting married. It should really even happen prior to people living together or casting their lot together.
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I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.
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I visited the Pentagon a few days after September 11, and I still remember so vividly the smell of terror surrounding the entire building and complex. I was angry that such a brutal act of violence was committed against innocent people.
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I often get asked why I decided to spend time highlighting the mental health of children.
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The worst was when my skirt fell down to my ankles, but I had on thick tights underneath.
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The group is only interested in the formal publishing of individuals for the purpose of establishing their social solidarity.
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In its essence, any art that relies on words makes use of their ability to eat away - of their corrosive function - just as etching depends on the corrosive power of nitric acid.
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A scholar ... should turn his ears from the talk of the illiterate and not take it to heart.
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I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.
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The Western man declares that in order to be beautiful, a woman must look 14 years old. If she dares to look 50, or worse, 60, she is beyond the pale. By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to invisibility.
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Smart art galleries know it's not the words on paper but the emotion in the piece that makes clients pull out the credit card or check book. The gallery's number one concern is will this stuff sell? What your bio, artist's statement or resume articulates will be of no help if you don't make art that connects with buyers.
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We all make mistakes but one has to move on.
