Jonathan Sacks Quotes
Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.
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There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.
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I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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OK, magic boy, let's see who you really are.
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I never gave it that much thought to pursue acting or anything, but I would definitely be a Bond girl if they asked me. For sure - I would make a great evil Bond girl!
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.
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I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.
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I found the happiest woman in America is between 50 and 55, is happily married, has made significant progress in her career, and lives in a community where she can easily exercise outside. But the most important single thing was she had her last child before she was 35.
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When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.
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You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.
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Metaphorically speaking, it's easy to bump into one another on the journey from A to B and not even notice. People should take time to notice, enjoy and help each other.
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I feel lucky to be in whatever I'm in. I feel lucky to be working.
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I just want other people to know the kind of joy that I have in my life. I want other people to be able to have fun.
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The preacher who jests and jokes with his people all week will soon find that he cannot stand in his pulpit on Sunday with power to reprove, rebuke and exhort. He may be the life of the party but it will be the death of the prophet.
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I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.
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Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.
