Edgar Bronfman, Sr. Quotes
George W. Bush is long gone, and with him the idea that 'Israel can do no wrong.'
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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I've got bowlegs, so if I do a midcalf look, I look bandy.
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I have some girls who I look back on and I think, 'Wow, they were really horrible to me.' I would love an apology from a few girls, but whatever. I'm not holding any grudges. I'm over it.
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The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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I think that T.V. shows are more like working at a home. You know you're going to the same place every day, working with the same people, the same cast and crew. You're in a dressing room instead of a trailer, so I think that that's more of a normal sort of lifestyle.
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My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
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I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.
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Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
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Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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Music is like my security blanket.
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Lying in the political sphere has gotten out of hand, and because people tend to dismiss things that challenge their preconceived notions of the world, fact checkers can only play a small part in remedying the problem.
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The year hasn't started yet and it's already been the best I've ever had.
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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
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It's a really exciting time to be involved in Welsh rugby.
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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I wrote 'Thelma & Louise' in 1988, and we shot it in 1990. Everyone kept saying, 'This is so groundbreaking... this is going to change the landscape,' but I don't see that result at all. When we saw some female studio executives, we were hopeful that more women would be hired as directors, but that didn't really seem to happen.
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I think literary theory satisfied a deep love I have for big, encompassing narratives about the world and how it works - which are usually, in the end, more creative visions unto themselves than illuminating explanations.
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George W. Bush is long gone, and with him the idea that 'Israel can do no wrong.'
