Jonathan Sacks Quotes
We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
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Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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I'm such a happy, easygoing person.
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We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.
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I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.
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The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
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The blockchain does one thing: It replaces third-party trust with mathematical proof that something happened.
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People want opportunity so they can earn security.
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
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To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
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I love to get a massage but I'm quite a baby with it. I don't like them too hard or anyone walking on me or anything. When it's good, it's the best thing ever. When it's bad, it's an hour of absolute agony.
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The biggest thing the money Infosys brought me is the freedom to do what I want. And what I want is to give millions more the opportunities I had.
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MusiCares was really good to me. I can't say enough how MusiCares helps other people. They really, really helped me. They have the greatest groups and support for musicians in recovery.
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My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.
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I hope that when I'm 80 years old, people will still be talking about my wedding.
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Since 1890, the Tour d'Argent's basic recipe hasn't changed. If you find yourself at the restaurant tomorrow, you will eat duck in the confidence that it was what someone ate a hundred years ago. You will eat it in the expectation that someone else will be served it a hundred years from now.
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We want a faithful Catholic businessman not to have to provide a service he finds unethical.
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I don't really base any of my characters on specific people that I know, although my characters are informed by the kind of people who live in my community.
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We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.
