Edgar Bronfman, Sr. Quotes
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Social interactions have always been a bit of a difficult thing for me. I think I have a natural tendency to make people not 100 percent super comfortable.
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Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.
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My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.
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Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.
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I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business.
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Surely no one can be sure he has visited Cienega; people say to themselves, do they not: 'Was it a vision; or have I, some time or other, seen dusk in a valley like this?'
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Running back was always my favorite position.
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I still wear my trousers baggy as I did in my teens. But in a different way. I've loved trainers since my youth - limited edition, vintage, whatever. You could recognise people and judge their character through their trainers. I'm a Nike man.
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I wish I were kind of normal. It would be so much more simple.
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I see that it is impossible to remember a long poem without practice and repetition; so is forgetfulness of the words of instruction engendered in the heart that has ceased to value them.
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Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.
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I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about.
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You can't cry when things get a little bit hard. You've just got to push through and know that there's a reason and end to the means.
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I couldn't find anyone doing something about the astounding injustices women were experiencing, so I decided to do something myself. I cannot tell you how many people ridiculed my efforts.
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To make a couple putts to win the Masters is just an amazing feeling.
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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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If people ask me to describe my look, I always say: 'Quite classic with an edge.'
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Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.
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In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind - in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.
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If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
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My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.
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You can't do it with strangers. It takes about five years to get into the ebb and flow. If it's not working after five years, get rid of them.
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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I've had three wives. I've had five weddings.
