Rabbi Akiva Quotes
If a rock, though extremely hard, can be hollowed out by water, how much more so should it be possible for The Light, which is compared to water, to change my heart. I will begin to study it, and try to become a scholar of The Light.
Quotes to Explore
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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When I produce a movie - and I've produced a number of movies, unlike Arnold - yes, I'm frustrated when the union says you can't do this, you can't work past that hour, you've got to break for lunch. But ultimately, they're right. What they do is for everyone's benefit.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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I was always under the impression that acting is an innate gift. One of the first things I heard them say at Koothu-P-Pattarai was that actors should realise the art of acting through their training.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
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I put some songs on the Internet back in 2009 - that's kind of how everything started with Washed Out. I had never really planned on being in a band or anything like that. It was kind of a hobby I did on my own, just recording music.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.
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I'm happy to be here. I'm happy to be anywhere. I'm not kidding.
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When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.
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While writing 'Half of a Yellow Sun,' I enjoyed playing with minor things: inventing a train station in a town that has none, placing towns closer to each other than they are, changing the chronology of conquered cities. Yet I did not play with the central events of that time.
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I have a great wife and it's very easy to be romantic because it makes her happy and then my life is so much better when she's happy.
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If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.
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The closest friends you'll have are the ones you'd take a bullet for, but they're the ones you constantly feel you could put a bullet in as well.
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The full ashtanga system practiced with devotion leads to freedom within one's heart.
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If a rock, though extremely hard, can be hollowed out by water, how much more so should it be possible for The Light, which is compared to water, to change my heart. I will begin to study it, and try to become a scholar of The Light.
