Yair Lapid Quotes

I felt that we had become a society ruled by sectors, by interest groups: Whoever's connected to the Israeli government gets more.

Yair Lapid

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• I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Think
  • Matter
  • Where

• I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • Model

• I have a great relationship with my parents. I have not been on lithium.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Great
  • Parents
  • Relationship

• Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Important
  • Think
  • Old

• I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don't even try.' I mean, I care about being pretty, but it's not my most valued thing.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Girl

• I think life is always dangerous. Some people get afraid of it. Some people don't go forward. But some people, if they want to achieve their goal, they have to go. They have to move... We have seen the barbaric situation of the 21st century in Swat. So why should I be afraid now?

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• You must know what you are capable of.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • You
  • Know
  • Capable

• Dan Brown is a character from 'Foucault's Pendulum!' I invented him. He shares my characters' fascinations - the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • World
  • Character
  • Conspiracy

• If you ever watch police chases on, like, helicopter cams, they very quickly become nightmarish when you start to see the police coming in from the edge of the frame. I always find that terrifying.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Start
  • Police
  • Edge

• Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.

  

  Carl Schurz
  • Never
  • Sea
  • Stars

• I was madly in love with Elvis Presley. Dad wasn't into it at all, at least not for himself as a performer. He used to say, 'Mr. Cole does not rock n' roll.'

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Love
  • Dad
  • Rock

• I got so excited about it. I was like, 'Yes! I won a Grammy!' And then my manager was like, 'No, you did not win a Grammy. You were part of a song that won a Grammy. Rihanna won a Grammy.'

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Song
  • You
  • Win

• I grew up being into sports and I wasn't trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I'm the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it's always, 'OK, one more take for Zac.'

  

  Zac Efron
  • Up
  • Sports
  • Body

• I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Mother
  • Earth
  • Sleep

• Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • Really
  • Pens
  • Comedians

• I would literally do anything for Richard Curtis. Anything.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Anything
  • Would
  • Richard

• Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Day
  • Sleep
  • Attitude

• Scott Brown is a superstar. Scott Brown won a race that nobody expected Republicans to even be competitive in, and he was able to do it at a time when nothing else going on, so he captured the attention of conservatives across the country.

  

  Carl Forti
  • Time
  • Country
  • Attention

• Can't is the word that is foe to ambition,An enemy ambushed to shatter your will;Its prey is forever the man with a missionAnd bows but to courage and patience and skill.Hate it, with hatred that's deep and undying,For once it is welcomed 'twill break any man;Whatever the goal you are seeking, keep tryingAnd answer this demon by saying: 'I can.'

  

  Edgar Guest
  • Hate
  • Forever
  • Deep

• I'm no wizard, and I don't like being thought of in that light at all. I think of a wizard as being some sort of magician or something, doing something on the sly or something, and I don't want to be thought of in that way.

  

  John Wooden
  • Light

• As far as the 2009 elections go, there has been a serious crackdown on human rights in Iran, a clampdown on the media and the wrongful imprisonment of journalists. So it seems what's happening is the government is going after people who have a voice, people who change society or public opinion.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • People
  • Society
  • Change

• The Royal Family have always had an interest in a number of different areas of society. We are a part of society.

  

  Prince Andrew
  • Different
  • Family
  • Society

• The real point is that totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person, and the whole society, and they don't at all believe that we should give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's.

  

  Jeane Kirkpatrick
  • God
  • Believe
  • Real

• I felt that we had become a society ruled by sectors, by interest groups: Whoever's connected to the Israeli government gets more.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Society