Jonathan Sacks Quotes
The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.
Quotes to Explore
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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If the 2016 election is any indication, every four years, millions more Americans will continue backing away from their own parties to choose a third party instead.
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Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.
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I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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In tactics and training, we do more with Conte. We work a lot of tactical positions, and we know exactly what we have to do on the pitch, where I have to go, and where the defenders have to go. We know exactly what to do.
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When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.
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Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.
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Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.
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There is always anxiety before a competition and it was no different for me today. It was only in the third round, with about 40 targets left, that I realised I could match the world record score.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.
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Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
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People expect you to change when you become a mother, and of course my priorities changed when I had Violet. She's number one in my life and the best thing that ever happened to me, but I still have fun. I am still myself, but that is made out to seem like I am rebelling against motherhood.
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If you lose control of your debt and deficit, you get massive cuts in things such as health and education. You get appalling insecurity, jobs lost, firms going overseas.
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Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself.
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We can choose to address the twin issues of population and consumption to rebalance the use of resources to a more egalitarian pattern of consumption.
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The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.
