Mili Avital Quotes
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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I do this thing with my daughter - I put my hand on her face and shake her head, but really affectionately. But I didn't think, and I did that to Flea.
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When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?'
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Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
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I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.
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As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.
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The first five minutes in Gramacho is really overwhelming because all of your senses are being attacked. Visually, too, because your eyes move and see fragments of things you recognize, but not quite, so it's very artistic. Your eyes are moving, then there's the smell, and the noise is unbearable.
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When I was 12 or 13, I realised I was good, but I never knew how far I'd get.
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If you don't like what you do, you're probably dragging your feet.
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There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
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For those of us who spent our careers competing with David Broder, the hardest thing to abide was the inevitable comparison. If someone said Jack Germond - or Jules Witcover or Walter Mears or whoever - 'is a pretty good political reporter,' the default response would be, 'but he's no David Broder.'
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The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.
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For each human being there is an optimum ratio between change and stasis. Too little change, he grows bored. Too little stability, he panics and loses his ability to adapt.
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Power is winning the battle over who owns the customer: the brand or the retailer.
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People need to work on what self-love is and redefining self-love... it comes from within: who you are and how you carry yourself in this world.
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If you're writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation.
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We live in crazy times - that is true - and things have gotten crazier, but it still doesn't feel like the turn of the century.
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The well-known inspiration for 'Ulysses' is made clear by the title itself: Joyce's novel is based on Homer's 'Odyssey', under the ever-fascinating premise that all of Odysseus' extraordinary adventures can be experienced by a modern man in a single day, provided that the writing consists of his mental activity.
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I think music can definitely be art; I also think music can be crap and not be art.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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In refugee camps around the world, I met people who were gone. They were still walking around but had lost so much that they were unable to claim any sort of identity. Others I met found who they truly were, and they generally found it through service to others. They became teachers when there was no school, books or pencils.
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Without an identity, you cannot plan and you cannot convince a player to do what you want.
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It took me many years to understand that my identity is more Israeli than Jewish.
