Edgar Bronfman, Sr. Quotes
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I caught the acting bug from my dad.
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special.
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Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.
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I was just making music in my bedroom. I never wanted to be onstage.
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I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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You've got to keep your eye on the prize and do what you love to do.
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Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.
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One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.
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I think that what happens for many Christians is, they accept their particular faith, they accept it to be true, and they stop examining it. Consequently, because it's already accepted to be true, they don't examine other people's faiths... That, I think, is not healthy for a person of any faith.
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I think character is very much a product of where you live, who you are, what is happening in that time of your life, and I'm interested in those pressures, those forces. A political context, a social context, really determines if not who people are then how they treat one another and what they say, how they speak.
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I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.
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When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.
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There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience.
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I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.
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I have more pet peeves than anybody: people talking in the movie theater, people eating in the movie theater loudly, people being rude, people making noise when you're supposed to be asleep, like drilling noises outside. I could be here all day.
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It is personal vanity of the most flagrant type which intrudes itself, unasked, into other people's affairs. There are few of us who do not feel capable of ordering the daily lives of others, down to the most minute detail.
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At the moment of death we will not be judged according to the number of good deeds we have done or by the diplomas we have received in our lifetime. We will be judged according to the love we have put into our work.
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I remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization.
