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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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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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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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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Hollywood is something imagined... acting is something crafted.
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Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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I have no idea why a guy would bring a jar of peanut butter to a concert.
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Marriage equality is a hustler's feeding frenzy of gold-diggers. I campaigned for marriage equality in Maryland because I believe we should have the right to it, but I personally don't want to get married. I don't want to imitate the traditions of heterosexual people. I hate weddings: they make me uneasy.
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Child, that is why all the rest are now a horror to her. That is what happens to those who pluck and eat fruits at the wrong time and in the wrong way. Oh, the fruit is good, but they loath it ever after.
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The sea from Dunkirk to Dover during these days of the evacuation looked like any coastal road in England on a bank holiday. It was solid with shipping.
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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.
