Ze'ev Chafets Quotes
In politics, as in fishing, you don't have to be a genius. You just have to be smarter than the fish.
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The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.
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If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
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I seemed to have been born reading.
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When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
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If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
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I can tell you Kristen Hager is one of my all time favorite people to work with ever and one of the greatest scene partners, and I'm such a lucky guy.
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The truth is that for a Democrat to triumph in a presidential election, it needs to come on the heels of 'the dark times' of an unpopular Republican administration. Carter followed the Nixon era, Clinton succeeded after 12 years of Reagan/Bush, and Obama was a direct result of eight years of Bush/Cheney.
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Follow the fellow who follows a dream.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
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I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
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Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.
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I want to be a major force.
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One thing I don't do is quit.
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He's got a great burst. He can be running, and he doesn't even put his hands up until the last second because he's got such confidence. Even though he's a shorter receiver, he's very much a downfield threat because of that.
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Whereas the good news had first been published for its own sake with no concern for success, now ineluctably success brought, as always, a desire for it. … They were not aware of what was happening, namely, that society was inverting Christianity instead of being subverted by it.
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The Himalayan glaciers, China's trade surplus, Olympic ice hockey - the world is full of pressing subjects that people never consult me about.
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I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.
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In politics, as in fishing, you don't have to be a genius. You just have to be smarter than the fish.
