Nachman of Breslov Quotes
The world goes on because of those who close their lips when they meet hostility from others.
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I think what I do in my acting world and what I do in my standup world is bring up a brand that I want to bring across. Once you figure out your brand and what you do, it's kind of easy at that. You end up getting your audience.
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The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
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The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker - all this is in your own hands.
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What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?
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Those who have accomplished great things in the world have been, as a rule, bold, aggressive, and self-confident. They dared to step out from the crowd and act in an original way. They were not afraid to be generals.
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Israeli teachers are not required to hold an academic degree, and their salaries are the lowest in the Western world.
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The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
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All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.
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To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.
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The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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Every Yom Kippur, Jewish tradition requires a strict spiritual inventory. You aren't supposed to just sit around feeling guilty, but to take action in the real world to set things right.
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When I'm writing books, something weird happens; and the result is the books contain a large amount of what you could call 'supernaturalism.' As a writer, I find I need that to explain the world I'm writing about.
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I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.
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I truly believe that everything Sci-fi taught me as a child about an efficient and wondrous world will be happening in my lifetime.
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One of the most beautiful things in the world I've ever seen or heard is people laughing, even when there seems to be so little reason for them to laugh.
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All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
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In looking out into the world, it didn't look all that nice out there. And who were the nice people? Certainly Mahatma Gandhi was.
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Nothing can stop a great song, so just keep songwriting.
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I take it that I must be the eternal playfellow of time. For piety and common-sense and death are rightfully time's toys; and it is with these three that I divert myself.
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Most of my choices come about through some kind of intuition or instinct, and if I need to, I'll post-rationalize them, intellectually, afterwards. But generally, they come about just by feeling.
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A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
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The world goes on because of those who close their lips when they meet hostility from others.
