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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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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I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?
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My brother Art was a doo-wopper. He had a group that sat out on a park bench in New Orleans and sang harmonies at night, and they'd go around and win all the talent shows and get all the girls, you know.
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We never had a huge squad and we never had a great deal of choice. But in many ways that helps because you've got to make do with what you've got. You don't have too many problems about picking the team you just hope that everyone turns up on the day.
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In 1972, George Harrison invited me to accompany him on a trip to India.
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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
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I hear the universe, I’m supposed to be a songwriter. I’m not gonna put my dream away of being an artist and singing my own songs, but the universe is telling me I need to focus in another direction right now.
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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.
