I. L. Peretz Quotes

Purim is the birthday of the first Schutz-Jude , the first Jewish toady to foreign royalty.

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• One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Truth
  • Always
  • Try

• All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.

  

  Victor Cousin
  • World
  • Home
  • War

• The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Men
  • Sea
  • Forest

• Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.

  

  Edgard Varese
  • Poor
  • Alphabet
  • Illogical

• I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren't dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked up on us and took us over, before we know what was going on.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Up
  • Think
  • Know

• Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I'm watching a movie or a TV show and there's that sense that anything can happen. It is the most fun feeling in the world.

  

  Adam McKay
  • World
  • Movie
  • Sense

• Growing up as a kid, we moved all over the country on a fairly frequent basis, from New Jersey to Texas, California, Illinois... we moved 21 times in my first 17 years.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Up
  • Country
  • Growing

• I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • People
  • Other
  • Involvement

• A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Home
  • Singing
  • Bird

• If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies, or play baseball.

  

  Carlton Fisk
  • People
  • Body
  • Baseball

• I've always loved mysteries, the something there that you didn't know, and with 'Case Histories' I just decide to make that more up-front.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Up
  • Know
  • Always

• Cleaning, like seduction, should be done from the top down - starting with the ceiling, which is ridiculous. Gravity takes care of that.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Done
  • Cleaning
  • Seduction

• In terms of immigration, we're seeing a lot of Democrats and Republicans use the really elastic term, 'Comprehensive Immigration Reform,' and they don't totally understand what that means. For us in El Paso, it's part of a larger discussion about the nature of the border.

  

  Beto O'Rourke
  • Nature
  • Immigration

• I get really weird when I'm not working. I have to keep working.

  

  Aubrey Plaza
  • Weird

• I don't think the Playboy brand has changed much at all - it's always been sophisticated and aspirational.

  

  Christie Hefner

• Don't use a pick-up line.

  

  Jenny Slate
  • Up

• I feel a lot of life in me and a lot of creative energy, and I think it's better suited somewhere it can run free.

  

  Jenny Slate
  • Life
  • Free
  • Energy

• Any email that contains the words 'important' or 'urgent' never are, and annoy me to the point of not replying out of principle.

  

  Markus Persson
  • Important
  • Words

• When I think of Mick Jagger still singing that he can't get any satisfaction in over forty years of being in the Rolling Stones, I have to conclude that he's either lying or not all that bright.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Thinking
  • Singing
  • Lying

• I remember taking my brother's car out, pushing it down the driveway in neutral in the night, and going out joyriding with friends and getting flat tires and getting busted. My license was revoked by my dad. So, definitely, I was a kid. I was a teenage boy.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • Night

• Surrender the thing you fear into the hands of God. Turn it right over to God and ask Him to solve it with you. Fear is keeping things in your own hands; faith is

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • God
  • Fear
  • Faith

• People seem to think that if you didn't do the same things you did 25 years ago, then, you know, then things have changed. But we're not doing anything really any different. You know, we go out, we have a good time. Everybody has always had relationships all around the road.

  

  Vince Neil Mötley Crüe
  • People
  • Road
  • Changed

• To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

  

  Georgia O'Keeffe
  • Courage
  • Create
  • Arts

• Purim is the birthday of the first Schutz-Jude , the first Jewish toady to foreign royalty.

  

  I. L. Peretz
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