Jonathan Sacks Quotes
Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken by human rights. It follows that any assault on Jewish life - on Jews or Judaism or the Jewish state - must be cast in the language of human rights.
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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They can't pooh-pooh me now, because of who I am.
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What really matters is who you are when you step on the field, and I will let my bat and my glove speak for themselves.
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In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
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I don't like family stories forcefully mixed with commercial elements.
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In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
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If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.
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Der Weg zur Hölle ist jedoch mit guten Absichten gepflastert, und er konnte ebensogut der Absicht sein, Geld zu machen, ohne zu produzieren.
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I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them.
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No! no arresting the vast wheel of time, That round and round still turns with onward might, Stern, dragging thousands to the dreaded night Of an unknown hereafter.
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Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken by human rights. It follows that any assault on Jewish life - on Jews or Judaism or the Jewish state - must be cast in the language of human rights.
