Jonathan Sacks Quotes
The market economy is deeply congruent with the values set out in the Hebrew Bible. Material prosperity is a divine blessing. Poverty crushes the spirit as well as the body, and its alleviation is a sacred task. Work is a noble calling.
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
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In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation.
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As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
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If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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The first thing I ever saw Bradley Cooper in was 'Wedding Crashers.'
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I've been with my husband and friends for so long, I've forgotten what is unappealing to new people.
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It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind.
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
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I don't want to spend my whole life watching the sun go down behind the left field bleachers.
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People always think I hate doing interviews. I don't. I wouldn't do them if I didn't like them.
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Fuseproject was founded in 1999, and the notion behind it, which is alive and kicking today, is fusing different disciplines. Our teams are absolutely incredible at their own discipline, but most importantly, they're incredible at partnering with each other.
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I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me.
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Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won't make us happier.
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China's stock market is inextricably tied to politics.
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Sex is the best high. It's better than any drug. I want to die making love because it feels so good.
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The Bible is the proper book for men. There the truth is distinguished from error far more clearly than anywhere else, and one finds something new in it every day. For twenty-eight years, since I became a doctor, I have now constantly read and preached the Bible; and yet I have not exhausted it but find something new in it every day.
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The market economy is deeply congruent with the values set out in the Hebrew Bible. Material prosperity is a divine blessing. Poverty crushes the spirit as well as the body, and its alleviation is a sacred task. Work is a noble calling.
