Steven T. Katz (Steven Theodore Katz) Quotes
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Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
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I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me.
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I just wish this social institution [religion] wasnt based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an accumulation of customs and myths directed toward proving something that isnt true.
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Your body is a temple, whether you're a Jew or not.
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There won't remain a single Jew that we will need to defend beyond the fence.
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Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion.
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"Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep You have to go looking for them; they're not just lying around on the surface You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves"
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Growth is a detox process, as our weakest, darkest places are sucked up to the surface in order to be released...often, it is not a change in partners but rather a change in perception that delivers us to the love we seek.
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I think all of us have our inner 13-year-old a lot closer to the surface than we're willing to admit even to ourselves.
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They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within.
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There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.
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Economists and workplace consultants regard it as almost unquestioned dogma that people are motivated by rewards, so they don't feel the need to test this. It has the status more of religious truth than scientific hypothesis. The facts are absolutely clear. There is no question that in virtually all circumstances in which people are doing things in order to get rewards, extrinsic tangible rewards undermine intrinsic motivation.The bonus myth: How paying for results can backfire.
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The Jew almost never marries a Christian woman; it is the Christian who marries a Jewess.
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The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are.
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Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.
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I think that G-O-D is like the answer to a formula for creating life. Or some kind of energy or antigravity. It's like the answer to an equation and it's become mythical over the years. But at one time we all knew what it was. I don't know when it was exactly, but that was the ancient knowledge. It's become diffused as it was handed down and turned into myth.
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I'm quite a romantic person - everyone loves being treated a little bit special, no matter how hard you are on the surface. I live in movie land; my head is full of nonsense.
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I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew.
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I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.
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There was also the myth of the western films. But my films are borrowed not from the story of the West in America but from the story of cinema.
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Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.
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There's a real purity in New Zealand that doesn't exist in the states. It's actually not an easy thing to find in our world anymore. It's a unique place because it is so far away from the rest of the world. There is a sense of isolation and also being protected.
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If a reader believes that everything in nonfiction or history is just objectively true, I don't really know what to tell them, except that at least in fiction, the choice of what perspective and bias to tell a given story from - which is always a deliberate choice - is foregrounded and clear.
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Something fundamental about the myth of the Jew has resurfaced.
