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.Jonathan Sacks
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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!
Calista Flockhart -
Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
Jackie Chan -
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.
Nathan Fillion -
In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.
Rand Paul -
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.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
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.
Oscar Isaac
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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.
Yochai Benkler -
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.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Carl Sagan -
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.
Wayne Coyne -
A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
Iain Banks -
The first thing I ever saw Bradley Cooper in was 'Wedding Crashers.'
Ed Weeks
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I've been with my husband and friends for so long, I've forgotten what is unappealing to new people.
Olivia Colman -
It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind.
Edmund S. Muskie -
We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan -
I don't want to spend my whole life watching the sun go down behind the left field bleachers.
Earl Weaver -
People always think I hate doing interviews. I don't. I wouldn't do them if I didn't like them.
Victoria Wood -
I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me.
Olivia Newton-John
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I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?
O. J. Simpson -
I love reading about history. Sometimes, I feel I was born in the wrong era. There was more creativity in the air when people were still discovering new worlds.
Shakira -
That's part of this industry. It's hard a lot of the time, especially when you get knocked down a lot. There's a lot of criticism and it's always in the back of your mind that you may never work again.
Yasmin Paige -
I love essays, but they're not always the best way to communicate to a larger audience.
Chris Abani -
I think one of the things about parents and children is there are the accidents of temperament. There's no guarantee that just because you are related you'll have anything in common.
Aline Brosh McKenna -
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.
Jonathan Sacks