Jonathan Sacks Quotes
The evidence shows that religious people - defined by regular attendance at a place of worship - actually do make better neighbors.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.
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After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.
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I would abolish the federal Department of Education and very quickly. People don't realize that the federal Department of Education gives each state 11 cents out of every school dollar that every state spends. But it comes with 15 cents worth of strings attached.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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Poland, of course, was the key country. I remember Stalin telling me that the plains of Poland were the invasion route of Europe to Russia and always had been, and therefore he had to control Poland.
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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In a way, architecture is about communication. That's an aspect of the discipline that is somewhat lacking, and there's definitely room for more progression into that area. I suppose that gives me a bit of a different edge. I'm also very, very used to doing a lot of exhaustive research and finding interesting information from different sources.
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In the future, I want a movie career, kids and a happy marriage.
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A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
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Both my parents were agnostic. My mother was kind of a Buddhist. She had some spiritual tendencies, but they were kind of flaky - New Agey, you know? Which is partly why I'm suspicious of that sort of thing. I'm skeptical of any spiritual practice that doesn't involve other people and doesn't involve some sort of consistent tradition.
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As we enter into the 110th Congress, it is imperative that we address ethics reforms needed to make this institution run correctly.
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Gay marriage... I'm a traditionalist. I'm older than most people in the audience. I kind of like tradition, and it's always been a man and a woman. I'm thinking, 'I don't quite get it'.
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Essentially what's going to determine how you succeed in New York is how people feel about the space, how delicious the food is, how they perceive the value and, most important of all, how they feel treated. My understanding is Stephen Starr is exceptionally good at all of this and his ability to create a transporting experience.
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I'm quite a reserved person, a bit shy at first when I don't know someone. I like to have a laugh and a joke; people have seen that in me.
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The evidence shows that religious people - defined by regular attendance at a place of worship - actually do make better neighbors.
