Rabbi Ishmael Quotes
As long as a man does not sin, he is feared. As soon as he sins, he himself is in fear.
Quotes to Explore
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Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do.
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Money is finite; it's limited by a number and what you can buy with it. Power has no limits if you're willing to go far enough in order to get as much of it as you can.
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I am the last guy that wants to quit making music.
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People have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years: using whatever is available to build shelter. If you ponder what could be used, then building materials are everywhere.
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A leader is admired, a boss is feared.
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When I decided that I might want to do acting for a living - I don't know where it really came from, since there was no school play or any of that - my mom gave me her blessing. I had to get a scholarship - that was the only way I could have gone to drama school.
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Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.
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Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.
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We want to encourage people. We want to help them. We want them to see all the good things God has placed in them and give them a right future.
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Look at Microsoft, Google, and Facebook. They have all entered many sectors, and actually, in many of those sectors, they weren't as early as Tencent.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
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I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.
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I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
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I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.
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Women are always complaining about men's fascination with breasts. But what if men were absolutely indifferent to breasts? What would women do then with these things that serve one function once or twice in a lifetime, and the rest of the time are just in the way?
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Personality maintains its discreetness by an act of will. Otherwise one person will flow helplessly into another.
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There are elements of Dodd-Frank that clearly need to be curtailed.
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A few years back, when my style was 'punk grandma,' I picked up an amazing pair of sandals - orthopaedic ones, with really thick soles. I've given them away to a friend now, because these days my look is more '1980s substitute teacher gone wild.'
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As long as a man does not sin, he is feared. As soon as he sins, he himself is in fear.
