S. Ansky Quotes
All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewishness.'
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If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth I, many people would support giving her some of the powers of an elected president.
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You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.
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You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
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I've been in this business a long time, and I'm very clear on what is real and what is fleeting.
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What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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I'm very inspired by him-it was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
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Fight scenes are like learning a dance. You learn it move by move, and then you put it all together and it looks awesome when you edit it together. It's great!
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I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.
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I follow my own head. And if I'm determined to do something, then I'll make sure that I make it happen.
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Hindi film and southern film industries are doing well when it comes to technical know how. By and large, they are pretty similar and are close knit industries.
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If you look a little punkish, then they're going to give you the parts. And if you play an iconic villain early on in your career, you tend to get asked to play one over and over and over again.
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Men still wear cologne, but I wish they wouldn't. No matter what you may believe, all men's fragrances smell like the air freshener in a taxi.
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I sit with people who are dying. I'm one of those unusual types that enjoys being with someone when they're dying because I know I am going to be in the presence of Truth.
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A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.
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I know that in my own mind, I struggle with a desire to be both entirely absent and entirely present in any given moment.
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Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.
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I'm a very spontaneous person, for the bad and the good.
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Last night I was east with them And west within Trying to be for you what you wanna see.
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I am a Christian and a Hindu and a Muslim and a Jew.
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Did I not tell you earlier that a Jew is such a noble, precious jewel that God and all the angels dance when he farts?
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It does make me sad that there's a lot of great songs out there, and they're not going to see the light of day because they're competing with these tailgate songs.
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Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of years. Whites enslaved other whites in Europe for centuries before the first black was brought to the Western hemisphere. Asians enslaved Europeans. Asians enslaved other Asians. Africans enslaved other Africans, and indeed even today in North Africa, blacks continue to enslave blacks.
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What we need to concentrate on is what we have in common, which is that warrior spirit that's in all of our hearts, that has created us the way we are - to choose to be a part of something so much bigger than ourselves.
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All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewishness.'
