Rabbi Akiva Quotes

Before you taste anything, recite a blessing.

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• My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Freedom
  • Desire
  • Freedom Of Speech

• Dreams take you beyond what you think you can do in life.

  

  Vikram Chatwal
  • Life
  • Think
  • Dreams

• I love proving people wrong.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • People
  • Wrong
  • Proving

• My favorite Broadway show day-to-day, just for the experience, was 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.' The people were so much fun. It was a great show.

  

  Barrett Foa
  • People
  • Great
  • Experience

• One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • Way
  • Late
  • Push

• We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Agree
  • Compromise
  • Necessity

• It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • People
  • Words
  • Change

• Every time I do something, I worry it's my last job.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Time
  • Job
  • Worry

• Mike Bibby's my brother.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Brother
  • Mike

• As an independent artist, you control the means of production, which is the ultimate form of empowerment.

  

  K. Flay
  • Control
  • Artist
  • Independent

• Go back through football, and you will see that the team with the best defense wins.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Team
  • Best
  • Football

• When I came into the business, things changed a lot, and my life was in a real state of flux.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Life
  • Real
  • Business

• The first cause of waste is probably even buried in our DNA. Human beings have a need for maintaining consistency of the apperceptive mass. What does that mean? What it means is, for every perception we have, it needs to tally with the one like it before, or we don't have continuity, and we become a little bit disoriented.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • Perception
  • Consistency
  • DNA

• I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Say
  • Holidays
  • Exploited

• I can work 24 hours a day and not have it bother me.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Work
  • Me
  • Day

• Pleasant, liquors of the mead-brewer to the multitude; Also pleasant, a songster generous, amiable. Pleasant, the open field to cuckoos and the nightingale; Also pleasant when the weather is serene.

  

  Taliesin

• The government computer has one button: delete.

  

  Ai Weiwei

• As I trace the route to his apartment, the twists and turns, and pass once more the old tree opposite his house, I am struck by a sudden thought: memories have ways of becoming independent of the reality they evoke. They can soften us against those we were deeply hurt by or they can make us resent those we once accepted and loved unconditionally.

  

  Azar Nafisi
  • House
  • Reality
  • Hurt

• I really like the Nineties! I want to bring back more of the Nineties, like the 'Spice Girls', 'Empire Records', Chloe Sevigny. I don't think anyone really gave it enough credit.

  

  Poppy Delevingne

• I don't come to London very often.

  

  Gail Honeyman

• As though God had turned away from the wise, and written his decrees, not in the mind of man but in the entrails of beasts, or left them to be proclaimed by the inspiration and instinct of fools, madmen, and birds. Such is the unreason to which terror can drive mankind!

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • God
  • Wise
  • Turned Away

• I'm always doing my best. Maybe people expect more of me, but I'm always doing my best.

  

  Bobby Abreu
  • People
  • Best
  • Expect

• Three days a week and Im home at the ranch in Fallbrook with my avocados.

  

  Martin Milner
  • Home
  • Three
  • Avocados

• Before you taste anything, recite a blessing.

  

  Rabbi Akiva