Jonathan Sacks Quotes

Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.

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• I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.

  

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• I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.

  

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• In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally.

  

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• I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.

  

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• I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.

  

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• I train for whatever happens. I'm prepared for wherever the fight goes.

  

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• The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.

  

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• Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.

  

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• I don't know if I have a brand. I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf. I guess I'm kind of the feel-good story who's seen every level of professional golf.

  

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• When I first started making music, I was all about wordplay and how fast I could rap, but over the years, I've really gained an appreciation for melody. What's cool is that when you're singing, you have to be concise, and when you're rapping, you have the opportunity to be really detailed with your lyrics.

  

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• When liberty returns, I will return.

  

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• I'm never really going to be the normal teenager.

  

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• Kabir Khan is a director who goes out of his way to make his actors comfortable. He's very chilled out. He makes the environment on set very casual and friendly.

  

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• There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.

  

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• I eat next to nothing.

  

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• Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.

  

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• The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity in the course of events. By the use of this instrument it gives us information transcending our experience, it enables us to infer things that we have not seen from things that we have seen; and the evidence for the truth of that information depends on our supposing that the uniformity holds good beyond our experience.

  

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• I was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool.

  

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• Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.

  

  Jonathan Sacks
  • Society
  • Past
  • Alone