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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If western culture is shown to be rich, it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to 'dissolve' harmful simplifications through inquiry and the critical mind.
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The Nazi regime intended eventually to destroy Christianity in Germany, if it could, and substitute the old paganism of the early Germanic gods and the new paganism of the Nazi extremists.
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If you live a rebellious lifestyle, then you rebel against things because they go against your ideals and the integrity of who you are as a person.
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I love hugging people. I still hug everybody in my meet-and-greet lines.
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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
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Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.
