Jonathan Sacks Quotes
Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.
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Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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America is a grateful nation. We cannot allow anything or anyone to get in the way of that. The words 'veteran' and 'backlog' should never appear in the same sentence.
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If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.
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The first concert that my parents took me to was in this canyon in Saudi Arabia called Buttermilk Canyon. You sleep under the stars in the desert, and ex-pats - German, Swiss, Canadian, American - would play classical music that filled the whole canyon.
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'Vice Squad' needed to be real if it was going to have the impact that I wanted it to have.
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My ideas are always better. We have an understanding in place.
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I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support groups for the kind of people who think that writing is therapeutic. Writing is the exact opposite of therapy.
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There might well have been an Irish great-great-grandfather of mine back then in the 1800s.
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A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.
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My problem is I don't have this incredible, hip image. I'm not some flamboyant or gorgeous-looking guy who's going to sell records based on his image.
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The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.
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Great teams argue. Not in a mean-spirited or personal way, but they disagree when important decisions are made.
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The battles after the wars are over can be the toughest; there's no longer the public interest that accompanies, for good and for ill, the start of combat.
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Sir, what is Poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is: but it is not easy to tell what it is.
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Kenneth Burke calls form the satisfaction of an expectation; The Man Who Loved Children is full of such satisfactions, but it has a good deal of the deliberate disappointment of an expectation that is also form.
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Halloween is so close I can practically taste the children's tears.
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Emily pounded on the door, assuming it would do no good, but finding the act of pounding very satisfying indeed.
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Yes, we are on our way back - not just by pure chance, my friends, not just by a turn of the wheel, of the cycle. We are coming back more soundly than ever before because we are planning it that way. Don't let anybody tell you differently.
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Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.
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Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.
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At the beginning of my career, it was really difficult for my family to understand what I was working on, but they supported me anyway and gave me the best advice, which was to always be myself.
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The challenge - and much of the fun - of writing in an established future history lies in incorporating new knowledge while remaining true to what has gone before. Expanding and enriching, not contradicting.
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Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.
