Jonathan Sacks Quotes
Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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Far too many candidates wear their faith on their sleeve.
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I would hate for my father to regret all his support that he's given me over the years and be embarrassed by anything I chose to do.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.
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There have been times when people who weren't my friends all of a sudden became my friend. I won't allow them to use me, but I have been pretty lucky to have friends who have supported me and who I have known since I was 12. They are still the same and they don't treat me any different.
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The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
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I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.
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It's no secret that I wear a kippa.
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There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
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Whether rich people make money or lose money, they get no sympathy from the public.
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Every major technological step forward has profoundly changed human society - that's how we know they're major, even if we don't always realise it at the time. Farming created cities. Writing, followed eventually by printing, vastly increased the preservation and transmission of cultural information across time and space.
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It was kind of fun being the headliners.
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It's like a series of waves hitting you. First, getting excerpted in the 'New Yorker' last summer, then getting published, then the best-seller list, the award, the movie deal, now this, a Pulitzer.
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I do not know myself how I paint it. I sit down with a white board before the spot that strikes me. I look at what is before my eyes, and say to myself, that white board must become something.
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Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The result is a generation of Syrian Kurds, many now in late middle age, who can't write their own language.
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If I'm going to represent God I have to do it the best I can.
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Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it.
