Ilan Stavans Quotes
American Jews are no longer a homogenous minority; we come in all colors and from all corners of the world.
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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I cannot go to Montreal without going to Beauty's, my favorite place for breakfast, where I have the Mish-Mash omelet with hot dogs, salami, eggs, green peppers, and onions, and the best banana bread in the world. It's legendary!
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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If the Knesset is a temple, then Feiglin is the idol. A Knesset where Feiglin presides is an impure Knesset.
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A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.
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Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it's all in your head?
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Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.
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I'm not ashamed of anything that I've done because when I did it, I was passionate about it and I was doing it for a reason.
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A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
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At a time when we are dealing with unpredictable suppliers of energy abroad and higher gas costs at home, the decision to increase domestic energy exploration is integral to a balanced, common sense energy policy.
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The point is that we are among those who cannot get their mouths around all the little Yeses that add up to tacit acceptance of a world run by crackpot realists and subject to blind drift. And that, you see, is something to which we do belong; we belong to those who are still capable of personally rejecting. Our minds are not yet captive.
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In the final analysis, I believe that an atheist chaplain would be the last person in the world that we would want a dying soldier who needs that last moment counselling in their life.
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American Jews are no longer a homogenous minority; we come in all colors and from all corners of the world.
