Zelig Pliskin Quotes
A person who takes a walk of 100 feet and a person who walks 2,000 miles have one major thing in common. They both need to take a first step before they take a second step.
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People get very trapped where they are. When they hear 'fashion' they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it's so elitist.
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I have been on dialysis in Istanbul, Milan, Indonesia, Manila, London. It's - it's amazing.
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I think that each woman, whatever age, needs to recognize something good in her body. Someone has beautiful legs, someone has beautiful hair, someone else has beautiful decolletage or a beautiful waist or beautiful hands. Everyone has something great.
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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A family is really a union of two separate entities. When you get married, you are marrying one family into another.
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I played trumpet in the school bands. I learned things I liked to play on my trumpet, but I didn't learn why this note goes with this note and why it produces that sound. Or how to create tension in the composition.
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I was home-schooled for my entire high school experience, so I never went to prom.
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I see the human in everyone and everything. No one is more important than anyone else; I still hang out with my high school friends.
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It's not up to me to list, like a grocer, my achievements in the government and the Knesset.
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The kids growing up in the apartheid era were so restricted and angry - if they spoke out against it, they were thrown in jail.
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If I made a mistake on a piece of content, I'm going to learn from it.
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The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics.
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All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
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You could take me anywhere. You could take me to the moon, and believe me, everybody's going to try to take a trip to the moon to watch me fight.
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But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.
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I read good. I was an English major.
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Acting was merely a pastime; I wanted to make films. But theatre, ah - now that was a labour of love. Can there be anything better than performing without retakes and cuts, in front of people you can see, hearing them breathe in the darkness of the hall?
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Everything belongs to me because I am poor.
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Writers spend all their time preoccupied with just the things that their fellow men and women spend their time trying to avoid thinking about. ... It takes great courage to look where you have to look, which is in yourself, in your experience, in your relationship with fellow beings, your relationship to the earth, to the spirit or to the first cause—to look at them and make something of them.
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The reasons I never set out to do a talk show is they're formulaic. People come out, tell jokes and read questions. But that's not what I do, and we built the show around my skill set.
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No woman who works full time and plays by the rules should have to raise her family in poverty.
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A person who takes a walk of 100 feet and a person who walks 2,000 miles have one major thing in common. They both need to take a first step before they take a second step.
