Rabbi Akiva Quotes
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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.
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Dreams take you beyond what you think you can do in life.
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I love proving people wrong.
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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.
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One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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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.
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Every time I do something, I worry it's my last job.
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Mike Bibby's my brother.
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As an independent artist, you control the means of production, which is the ultimate form of empowerment.
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Go back through football, and you will see that the team with the best defense wins.
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When I came into the business, things changed a lot, and my life was in a real state of flux.
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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.
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I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them.
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I can work 24 hours a day and not have it bother me.
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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.
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The government computer has one button: delete.
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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.
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As I go clowning my sentimental way into eternity, wrestling with all my problems of estrangement and communion, sincerity and simulation, ambition and acquiescence, I shuttle between worrying whether I matter at all and whether anything else matters but me.
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There's no one quite like William - I bet he's really kind. You can just tell by looking at him.
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I feel that through my father's music I've found my own voice in my own playing.
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I do not know what will happen in China politically. I do know that it is impossible to maintain the communist system or probably even a strict one-party system when the economy becomes so pluralistic. Now, what form that takes and what institutions will evolve, I do not have a clear view about. I do not think the United States, as a general principle, ought to intervene in this.
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Before you taste anything, recite a blessing.
