Meir Soloveichik Quotes
The giving of the Torah is a story of God seeking to provide humanity with the opportunity to make moral decisions.
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Honestly speaking, I don't like my films. When I watch them, I see a lot of scope for improvement, so if I were to see any of my films, like 'Dhoom,' I might say... 'It would have been better if...' or 'had it been...' and this is all about evolving.
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To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.
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Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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The Hungarian ministry begged the king earnestly to issue orders to all troops and commanders of fortresses in Hungary, enjoining fidelity to the Constitution, and obedience to the ministers of Hungary.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.
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Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.
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I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.
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I still sing every day - in the shower or on the set all day. I'm sure everyone will tell you that I never shut up. But it's not in the capacity that I would like to.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.
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I came to running late. It was something I had always wanted to do, but I always end up getting hurt. It didn't occur to me that I could actually slow down and walk a little bit!
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Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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If I do my very best, then the camera and the audience will follow me, and eventually they will somehow feel like I feel. I don't have to show it to them. I don't have to speak it out loud.
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At the end of the day, things don't get better unless you continue to invest in your workforce. And I've not heard any Republican talk about education and the investment in the future workforce.
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God has foreordained the works to which He has called you. He has been ahead of you preparing the place to which you are coming and manipulating all the resources of the universe in order that the work you do may be a part of His whole great and gracious work.
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The giving of the Torah is a story of God seeking to provide humanity with the opportunity to make moral decisions.
