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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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 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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A video taped stage performance is just - you know, it's never gonna be the same as it is if you're sitting there live in the theatre.
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In cartoons and in improv, anything can happen. You can be any character you want. The rules of real life don't always apply.
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Football is my true love. I played with boys until I was 11 and then for a girls' club in Middlesbrough until I was 16.
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I'm opposed to giving people money for doing nothing.
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What would be the political benefits to Obama of an amnesty? It could weld Hispanics to the Democratic Party, would be wildly popular with the ideological and Christian Left, and quietly welcomed by those Chamber-of-Commerce Republicans who have silently supported amnesty and secretly want immigration off the table in 2016.
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'The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don’t die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors.' p144
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Some are born to move the world, to live their fantasiesBut most of us just dream about the things we'd like to beSadder still to watch it die, then never to have known itFor you, the blind who once could seeThe bell tolls for thee... - Losing It (1982)
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If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the decision-making process. The major economic countries of the world will enter into those agreements.
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In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.
