Edgar Bronfman, Sr. Quotes
Jewish sovereignty and governance over our ancestral home are, I believe, important goals that every Jew ought to support.
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Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.
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I believe in growth - in myself and in the characters I create.
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The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.
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I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.
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I rise in support of the separation of powers as established by our Founding Fathers in the Constitution. The Constitution clearly delegates the power to deal with criminal matters, like the use of drugs, to the States.
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We believe it is comprehensive international sanctions against the white regime that will save us from the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of South Africans, black and white.
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It's important for cinema to keep on evolving: for people, and not only teenagers, to be able to go to a movie that has huge epic scope but has an intellectual and real story to tell.
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I believe that communal admiration of individuals is healthy for society. It facilitates, in one way, the base of our universal standard, morals, but also publicly espouses the virtue of certain practices that are kind of like 'inherently good' in some kind of ideas of what the good is.
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Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
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Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.
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If you believe in yourself and feel confident in yourself, you can do anything. I really believe that.
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My mum was no pushy parent. She would drop me off for auditions when I was in my teens at the Lyric Theatre, then give me my bus fare and say she would see me later at home. She wasn't hanging around in the wings geeing me on. I had to do it on my own; it was up to me.
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I don't hide. I never have. I stay at home because I like to stay at home, and at home I work.
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I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.
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Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.
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My mother and I were very close and even when I left home and came to London I would ring her every day. She was very proud of me and loved my celebrity. She would often come to shoots and TV shows with me.
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I Skype my mum every day. Everyone in my family does creative things, so it's nice to have that support.
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But I really believe that you don't do music because you want to, you do it because you have to.
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I think it's important to be diverse, and I hope we continue to see that as a trend in the fashion industry.
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I would only have been too pleased if someone had asked me for my data. If you really believed in your data, you wouldn't mind someone looking at it. You should be able to respond that if you don't believe me go out and do the measurements yourself.
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If you would be good, first believe that you are bad.
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I like to communicate on my Instagram page with people: use it as a window to my world.
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The intelligence of cinema-goers should be respected.
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Jewish sovereignty and governance over our ancestral home are, I believe, important goals that every Jew ought to support.
