Edgar Bronfman, Sr. Quotes
It is high time that the Arab world's professed desire for peace is matched by responsible action, and not more of the same equivocation.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
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For quite a while, I didn't receive a higher academic status. I didn't feel any discrimination against me as a woman scientist, but I hadn't produced a lot of science journal articles.
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I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.
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Often, a serial killer has no felony record.
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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In some sense, what you might have suspected from the first day of high-school chemistry is true: The periodic table is a colossal waste of time. Nine out of every 10 atoms in the universe are hydrogen, the first element and the major constituent of stars. The other 10 percent of all atoms are helium.
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One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
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I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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I don't watch television. I'm not a TV guy.
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Because pandemics almost always begin with the transmission of an animal microbe to a human, it's work that takes me all around the globe - from rain forest hunting camps of central Africa to wild animal markets of east Asia.
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My favorite prayer is Footprints in the Sand. You know that prayer? I know the times that he carried me, you know? I kind of wore him out.
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Working 40 hours a week used to mean a minimum standard of living and a foothold on the first rung of the economic ladder to the middle class.
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I enjoy music wherever it's coming from.
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If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
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In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.
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I moved to New York City in '92 and had no money. I had a lot of free time, as actors do. I would go to the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center.
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I think I survived by running away some. Running away to work.
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We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.
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Dad was a retired chemist who, in his 60s, fathered and fed me and my two sisters while Mum worked as a secretary. He made us curries, Chinese meals and strange concoctions. He was often unsuccessful.
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I think at the end of the day, even though I didn't win a Super Bowl ring, I felt like I backed them up for drafting me. I backed up the San Diego Chargers for picking me with the fifth pick.
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It is high time that the Arab world's professed desire for peace is matched by responsible action, and not more of the same equivocation.
