Itzhak Perlman Quotes
Everybody has a different kind of talent and a different timetable as to when they develop.
Quotes to Explore
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You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting.
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If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.
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I don't want to stand in front of a whole lot of fakeys. If I'm going to meet someone and say hello, I want to feel like I'm really meeting that person, not a masked version. I want to give that to people when they meet me. You don't have to like it. I'm not looking for you to like it; I'm looking to be myself.
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Even though it seems like there are a lot of parts, there is really tons of downtime in the acting world.
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I once rode a motorcycle across Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco!
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Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.
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I never got formal training in music. I would just sit with my ear to the speaker and my hand on the needle. I'd listen to Wanda Jackson and think, 'How did she do that?,' and lift the needle and try it myself.
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Ineptitude and negligence directed British policies in India more than any cynical desire to divide and rule, but the British were not above exploiting rivalries.
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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
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At the end of the day, I do think I'm happiest doing comedy. I love it. I know that I can do other things. I love drama as well.
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I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me. The only person I could prepare for events was me. And if I didn't play well, I didn't play well, and I wasn't going to compete.
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I thank God I'm myself and for the life I'm given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.
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Not greatly gifted, not deeply beautiful, Madonna tells America that fame comes from wanting it badly enough. And everyone is terribly good at badly wanting things.
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We get a lot of cheese, no mice with that.
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Political stuff is all about his [Hunter S. Thompson] reaction to a situation. And my stuff is much more externally driven.
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I couldn't do an acting job just to be working. It really had to have some soul to it.
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If you leave yourself open to learning, then you can benefit and enjoy an incredibly rewarding and insightful experience. These experiences are the driving force in my life, and they keep me alive and inspire not only my music but also my everyday life.
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I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else
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I came across awful characters when I got some kind of status and came to Hollywood. Then you have directors trying to sleep with you, assuming that you will do things because of the way you dress.
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For a non-violent person the whole world is one family. He will thus fear none, nor will others fear him.
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In our manner of speech, our plans of living, our dealings with others, our conduct and walk in the church and out of it-all should be done as becomes the gospel.
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Everybody has a different kind of talent and a different timetable as to when they develop.
