Israel Zangwill Quotes
The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie.
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So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'
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I keep wondering at night, 'Will I have a bank the next morning, or will some technology company be doing banking without needing a bank?'
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
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War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
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Secularist justices de-Christianized our country. They invented new rights for vicious criminals as though criminal justice were a game. They tore our country apart with idiotic busing orders to achieve racial balance in public schools.
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I do want people to see me as a well-rounded actress, not just someone who plays in 'Turtle' movies.
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Lots of TV shows say that they are like doing a movie every week, but 'JAG' truly was a huge show. Lots of once-in-a-lifetime opportunities, like being launched off an aircraft carrier and being welcomed by military bases all over California.
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As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do.
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Look up from what you're doing and look around for a minute. See what a beautiful world you're in.
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As a trial lawyer in front of a jury and an author of true-crime books, credibility has always meant everything to me. My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.
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I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
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There are checks and balances and broad separation of powers under the Constitution. Each organ of the State, i.e. the legislature, the executive and the judiciary, must have respect for the others and not encroach into each other's domain.
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Greatness in art is always a by-product.
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In Tarzan's clever little mind many thoughts revolved, and back of these was his divine power of reason. If he could catch his fellow apes with his long arm of many grasses, why not Sabor, the lioness?
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Our Garrick's a salad; for in him we seeOil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree!
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All movements go too far.
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Don't cry over spilt milk.
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The subject does not belong to the world, but it is a limit of the world. (5.632)
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I felt naked. I felt as perhaps a bird may feel in the clear air knowing the hawk wings above and will swoop. I began to feel the need of fellowship. I wanted to question, wanted to speak, wanted to relate my experience. What is this spirit in man that urges him forever to depart from happiness, to toil and to place himself in danger?
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The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.
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Passive violence can be as simple as someone honking their horn at you for not turning fast enough when the light changes. And it can be highly complex, like when your co-worker undermines all of your work relationships by spreading rumors and lies about you. That's how passive violence rolls.
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If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
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The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie.
