Yehuda Levi Quotes
From the explicit prohibition against the destruction of fruit trees, our sages deduced that it is all the more forbidden to destroy the fruits themselves.
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I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.
Forest Whitaker
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Fashion isn't something you can buy; you need to have the sense of it, and most people don't.
Carine Roitfeld
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
Idina Menzel
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I want to eliminate the basis of problems and basis of crime, and basis of terrorism.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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The only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous.
Jack Herer
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Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.
Taylor Momsen
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I'm the best Twitterer.
Dan Carter
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Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
Gavin Newsom
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Polite conversation is rarely either.
Fran Lebowitz
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People are not happy with women in actual power, yet we seem to be happy to take women on as figureheads, objects, like queens. It's a powerful yet politically powerless role.
Kate Williams
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Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
P. J. O'Rourke
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
Walter Gropius
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Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope of 1980s minimalists: a pattern of reference to dire secrets and hidden wounds these authors didn't realize they were supposed to have imagined.
Madison Smartt Bell
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I think in high school and college, you don't really know what your routine is going to be; you're still trying to come up with it.
Jacob deGrom
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I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.
Patrick White
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I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case.
Floyd Abrams
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I don't mind doing the green-screen stuff at all, and in fact it's a lot like black-box theater, which I did plenty of in New York.
Gabriel Macht
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Being a mother is probably the most important thing in my life right now.
Halle Berry
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People ask me what makes a great skier. It takes the gift; but besides the gift it takes all the availability of mind which permit total control of all the elements that lead to victory. - total composure.
Jean-Claude Killy
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I eat a balanced diet. The secret is to watch your portions, but I also work out a lot. Working out a lot isn't necessary, but I am very active, and my body can endure intense workouts.
Adriana Lima
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For more than a quarter of a century on active duty, my house has been my tent, and my home the battlefield.
Zachary Taylor
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It certainly was unusual growing up with two fairly well-known pastors as my parents.
Mallory Ortberg
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At one point, I just decided that it might be more creatively rewarding to put my time into writing on stuff that I could really be proud of rather than trying to get a one-episode part on 'Modern Family' or something.
Paul Rust
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From the explicit prohibition against the destruction of fruit trees, our sages deduced that it is all the more forbidden to destroy the fruits themselves.
Yehuda Levi