Meir Soloveichik Quotes
If R. Akiva was perhaps overly generous in judging his generation, it can perhaps be ascribed to the belief, based on his own experience, that everyone is capable of a dramatic life change.
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make films. That's really all I ever wanted to do.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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In terms of Hurricane Sandy, I really do see some hopeful grassroots responses, particularly in the Rockaways, where people were very organized right from the beginning, where Occupy Sandy was very strong, where new networks emerged.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women's Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women's rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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Designers have told me that their collections are so me, but I don't always recognise it because if you ask me what my style is, I'm really not that sure.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know about people. If I can't say something good about a person, I don't want to say anything. And since I don't want to say anything bad, I won't write a book.
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How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
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I believe every lie that I ever toldPaid for every heart that I ever stoll I paid my cause and I didn't foldWell, it ain't that hard when you got soul (This is my world)Somewhere I heard that life is a testI been though the worst but still I give my best yeah
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God does not deal directly with man: it is by means of spirits that all the intercourse and communication of gods with men, both in waking life and in sleep, is carried on.
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Only sixteen players have hit fifty or more homers in a season. To me, that's a very special milestone.
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I'm still basically the same as I always was. I still listen to the same people. That's where I'm coming from.
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Don't get down on yourself that you can't run a 4K or dance all night long at a fun club. Give yourself a break.
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If R. Akiva was perhaps overly generous in judging his generation, it can perhaps be ascribed to the belief, based on his own experience, that everyone is capable of a dramatic life change.
