Jonathan Sacks Quotes
Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God's Book of Life.
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There was this old soccer game called 'Goal' for the old Nintendo, and ever since then, I've played everything from the old school games to the 360.
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'Free State of Jones' went beyond that. It got into how the South wasn't as homogenous as we thought it was - or even the North for that matter, where we like to assume everyone wanted to free the slaves and they were all abolitionists. It actually shows how complex these ideologies were on both sides.
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I live a good life but a pretty simply life. I just store all my money under my mattress. My wife and I travel, and I bought my dream car, the Cobra.
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It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.
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I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.
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I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.
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All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'
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But it's a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because I don't want people latching on to a particular stereotype.
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A well begun is half ended.
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So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
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Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.
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People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic.
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Our plan is what the Scottish government had with the U.K. It's an agreement to consult over the independence of Catalonia. And we will not abandon this plan until the end.
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Daft Punk's 'One More Time' remains one of my favorite 'getting ready to go out tonight' songs.
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When the audience is awful you can still have a great night and people will walk out thinking they had a great time even though there was loads of loudmouths and the sound was terrible.
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It's a challenge to turn a book series into a television series; you need to keep people on their toes, but you also want to be true to the source material.
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The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.
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Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God's Book of Life.
