Jonathan Sacks Quotes
What I find fascinating about Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights we celebrate at this time of the year, is the way its story was transformed by time.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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As long as my family's OK, I'll be fine.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.
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A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.
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When Captain America is in a room full of Marvel superheroes, he is always Top Dog, even though his powers are pretty modest. He could be stood next to Thor, Iron Man, whoever. He is the one that everyone looks up to. To me, that is Superman, too. Even de-powered in the Legion arc, he was still Superman. Still Top Dog.
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There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.
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I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.
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Some movies are the kind you take home with you at the end of the day, and some, you can let go.
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America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.
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With 'Nip/Tuck,' I had never even done anything before I got on that show. They created that character for me. I was reading for something else.
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I don't want to live on past records.
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By nature, I'm very care-taking. There's something really beautiful about cooking for someone and feeding them.
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Turning 50 changed me and I'm far more accepting of myself. I'm not thin, but I am a size 10. I go in at the middle and very much out at the bottom and top. And now I think, 'Well, that's how I am.'
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Things are steadily coming better, but I'm having problems with a few places on the track.
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I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it--and that's all I got.
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Time, Ms. McHenry," Townsend said. "It can be a cruel, cruel thing.
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What I find fascinating about Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights we celebrate at this time of the year, is the way its story was transformed by time.
