Israel ben Eliezer (Baal Shem Tov) Quotes
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." Why? Because every human being has a root in the Unity, and to reject the minutest particle of the Unity is to reject it all.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves.
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If I ever had needed to put together a CV, it would be quite short. Like many young people, I'd highlight my desire to work hard.
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I really like just super dry comedy.
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I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.
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I love elephants! It's my favorite animal.
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This is the people's money, and we need to use it on their priorities. Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.
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I had moved across the country, taken internships, networked, worked long hours, and called in favors to get there. And I had done it. I was working in Hollywood. So imagine the melancholy I found myself in when I realized that I didn't love casting the way that I always thought I would.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'
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I consider myself somewhat spiritual, but not practicing.
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In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.
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I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The world is full of potential attacks, potential disasters.
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Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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I wanted to be a professional baseball player.
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Theatre is where my heart is. It's where I can do my best work. And even if I do films and TV, that's what I want to come back to.
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We are rearing a generation of kids who are more equitable and more understanding about the existence of language variety and why it is there.
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I teach MBAs. And I noticed, starting a few years after China joined the World Trade Organization, that a lot of my students were no longer employed. They were still coming to get their MBA, but they'd lost their jobs. And I started to ask questions why. And, at that point, all roads were leading to Beijing.
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I also have that desire to blurt stuff out, but I've learned I can't do that. Not when you realise the whole world is listening. That's why perhaps I look so uncomfortable in interviews at times.
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I saw Tequila Sunrise as a romantic picture with complex, bigger than life characters.
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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." Why? Because every human being has a root in the Unity, and to reject the minutest particle of the Unity is to reject it all.
