Jonathan Sacks Quotes
Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.
Quotes to Explore
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Would the world be a better place if all drugs were legalized tomorrow? Absolutely. But pragmatically speaking, you're not going to go from the criminalization of all drugs to the legalization of drugs overnight.
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For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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Maybe I'm a glutton for punishment, but I enjoy anything where you get to flex your acting muscles, you get to really go for it.
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Looking back, I can see that the women I loved, at least early on, were status symbols. I suppose, in that sense, I was my mother's true disciple. She'd taught me that a good man, though elusive, could transform one's whole life once he was caught.
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E-mail, when it became mobile - what happened? Utilization of email went through the roof. Just pure Internet access and data - what happens when you mobilize it? Multiples. People are dependent upon broadband and as you mobilize it, they become even more dependent on broadband.
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I was a dyslexic kid.
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A 'Cosmo' cover has been my dream my entire life. I cried when I found out.
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I don't know if I found soccer or if soccer found me. Especially because when I was younger, I was doing it, in a lot of ways, because I wanted the attention of my mom and dad.
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I have a very strong belief in God.
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I believe that God and reality are too big for my poor words.
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I've never been to jail. I've never been arrested. I've never been locked up.
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I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
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I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.
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I've always had very catholic tastes.
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A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.
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My first lead role was probably 'Party Girl' in 1994.
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People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
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Elegance is all in the mind of the wearer.
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How strange or odd some'er I bear myself, As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on.
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Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.
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Music I heard with you was more than music,And bread I broke with you was more than bread;Now that I am without you, all is desolate;All that was once so beautiful is dead.
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Just as people asked ‘Why do they hate us?’ after 9/11, one evening I asked my father, ‘Why did they do this to us?’ He took a long breath and paused, deeply concerned about what he was about to say. ‘The Muslims bombed us because we are Christians. They want us dead because they hate us’ This hate was not because we had armies in the Middle East or because we supported Israel or for any of the reasons people easily turn to today. It was because we were Christians, infidels. As a child, I was just too young to understand all the political implications, but I understood one thing: people wanted to kill me simply because I was a Christian.
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Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.
