Michael Oren Quotes
We in Israel certainly have a great interest in seeing peace, stability, and security restored to Egypt. We want nothing more than peace for the Egyptian people. We're not going to get involved in how Egypt, how the Egyptians should run themselves. That's an internal Egyptian affair.
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.
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Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.
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When I give notes on a script, I say, 'Guys, I may drift, but it's part of the process.' So I'm aware that I'm drifting, but I'm grabbing a lot of stuff.
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
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It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
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It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.
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The Reverend Jeremiah Wright would baptize Obama, perform his marriage to Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, baptize their daughters, and draw him into the raucous, restless family of faith that Obama had never known before.
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Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
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Usually the characters I play are men of few words, who communicate in non-verbal ways.
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Language is the dress of thought.
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Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.
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I want to have her back as an ingredient in the restoration of my past. Could I have wished her anything worse? Having got once through death, to come back and then, at some later date, have all her dying to do all over again? They call Stephen the first martyr. Hadn't Lazarus the rawer deal?
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It's strange to play outdoors, especially in the daytime. But we're figuring it out. The rules are different for festival shows - how you talk to the crowd, how you can try to get them involved. Things are just a little different, and I think we've learned to adapt our show.
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Love, safety, belongingness and respect from other people are almost panaceas for the situational disturbances and even for some of the mild character disturbances.
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The world has 6 billion people and counting. We need to help 500 million people become better leaders so that billions can benefit.
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Remember, the choices we make today shape the people we become tomorrow.
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The people I used to be surrounded by are getting along without me. Somehow, that really bugs me.
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We in Israel certainly have a great interest in seeing peace, stability, and security restored to Egypt. We want nothing more than peace for the Egyptian people. We're not going to get involved in how Egypt, how the Egyptians should run themselves. That's an internal Egyptian affair.
