Jonathan Sacks Quotes
In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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Dub and reggae... I play that a lot around the house.
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If you're out for two years, and you beat one guy with a full-time job, without disrespect, but we're talking about fighting for a world title. You can't just beat a guy that went there to cover some guy that got injured, and then this guy, after two and a half years, gets a title shot.
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I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.
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Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
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Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.
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Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
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Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.
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I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted.
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People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
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When you're young, you're stupid.
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I'm a way bigger worrier than I ever was before I had kids. And, you know, the stress and anxiety that can go along with motherhood, I have had to battle that.
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I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.
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I never liked you, and I always will.
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I do not welcome advice from actors; they are here to act.
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I was so overprotected, I used to think I was as delicate as people said I was.
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I love poetry. It's at the heart of everything I do. Poetry transforms what we call language, and uses language as the stuff to become something else. I get spun around by what happens in words. When that occurs, it inspires images that seem so original to me as an artist, even though I'm following what the poem has offered.
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To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.
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When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears.
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If you discourage saving and investment, that means you're walking in the opposite direction of job creation. You're discouraging good job creation and job growth.
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The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.
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In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.
