Steve Israel Quotes
I believe that social security should be a universal retirement guarantee and not means tested.
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The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.
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I believe politicians should always remain realistic.
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America is our biggest market, and I really do believe if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere.
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I cannot believe how much love people have shown me.
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I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
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Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.
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Sticking with your vision and what you believe in is so, so important.
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I should have died in ambushes a hundred times.
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I really believe the nexus of terrorism and nuclear weapons is the world's most ominous threat.
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You are enough, which I believe is critical for any human being to get in their bones.
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I was probably 21 or 22 years old when I realized the prose that I live by, which is, 'You get what you give.' The more good deeds that you could do in your life, the more fulfilling and enriched your life is going to be. I truly believe that.
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I used to go on chat rooms on AOL, back when those things existed, and argue with believers in evolution and argued with them that it was against God's law to believe in evolution. It was something I believed really personally.
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When I consider others I can easily believe that their bodies express their personalities and that the two are inseparable. But it is impossible for me not to feel that my body is other than I, that I inhabit it like a house, and that my face is a mask which, with or without my consent, conceals my real nature from others.
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It is the fallacy of all intellectuals to believe that intellect can grasp life. It cannot, because it works in terms of symbols and language. There is another factor involved: consciousness. If the flame of consciousness is low, a symbol has no power to evoke reality, and intellect is helpless.
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We tell them that we believe it will be beautiful because that is our specialty, we only create joy and beauty. We have never done a sad work. Through the drawings, we hope a majority will be able to visualize it.
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I believe that if you reject and don't respect what you have now, that's ingratitude. I'm grateful for everything I have today.
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You know, even though I feel that I can still play the game, God has made the answer clear to me. Retirement is now. I have to retire as a Green Bay Packer.
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The most important accomplishment, I believe, was my voting against the First World War.
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My mother had two unshakable beliefs that she tried to drill into me. The first was that I had to study and work twice as hard as my white peers if I wanted to survive in America, and the second was that it was delusional and dangerous to believe I possessed the same freedom white people had to pursue my dreams.
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There are lots of different strategies that an animal can use to survive. What a worm does is try to convert food into worms as soon as possible. In three days a single worm produces 300 progeny. So why put your resources into developing if you can make a brand-new worm in no time at all?
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The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.
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I believe that social security should be a universal retirement guarantee and not means tested.
