S. Ansky Quotes

All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewishness.'

S. Ansky

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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.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Political
  • Giving

• 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.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Time
  • World
  • Important

• You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Art
  • Know
  • Voice

• I've been in this business a long time, and I'm very clear on what is real and what is fleeting.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Time
  • Long
  • Real

• What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • Men
  • Value

• 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.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Up
  • Work
  • Father

• 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!

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Great
  • Together
  • Learning

• 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.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Doubt
  • Impossible
  • Lawyers

• I follow my own head. And if I'm determined to do something, then I'll make sure that I make it happen.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Determined
  • Make It Happen

• 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.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Pretty
  • Know
  • Film

• 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.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Career
  • Play
  • Villain

• 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.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Believe
  • Men
  • May

• 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.

  

  Ram Dass
  • People
  • Truth
  • Dying

• A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Writing
  • Party
  • Picture

• I know that in my own mind, I struggle with a desire to be both entirely absent and entirely present in any given moment.

  

  K. Flay
  • Mind
  • Desire
  • Present

• Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.

  

  Barry White
  • Day
  • Opinion
  • Turned

• I'm a very spontaneous person, for the bad and the good.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Spontaneous

• Last night I was east with them And west within Trying to be for you what you wanna see.

  

  Ben Folds
  • Trying
  • Night

• It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Love
  • Christian
  • Difference

• Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.

  

  John Bunyan
  • God
  • Heart
  • Words

• Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Down
  • Trees
  • Graceful

• I have not conceived my mission to be that of a knight-errant wandering everywhere to deliver people from difficult situations. My humble occupation has been to show people how they can solve their own difficulties.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Occupation
  • Wandering
  • Conceived

• Politics is like driving. To go backward put it in R. To go forward put it in D.

  

  Tom Harkin
  • Driving

• All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewishness.'

  

  S. Ansky
  • Himself
  • Jew
  • Few