Jonathan Sacks Quotes
While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.
Quotes to Explore
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
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Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much. But I've been with women over the years when my weight fluctuated, and they're definitely more interested physically when I am in really great shape.
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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I've always said I wanted to play in England. There was a struggle between Chelsea and United, but according to me, Chelsea has the best project.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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I'm so freaking competitive it's unbelievable.
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To be able to make decisions and see them come to fruition and feel the excitement around them, what it generates within the company, how the artists get motivated - that's the most rewarding part; feeling I can be a catalyst for an artistic experience for our artists and for the public.
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I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
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I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.
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Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the '70s is utterly bizarre.
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The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.
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I do not like violence.
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Taxation of private property, or the regulation of such property so as to reduce its value, can become in effect a form of servitude.
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When the problem is worry, the prescription is prayer.
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My only regret is the media's obsession with the past.
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The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider!
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While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.
