Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes
The Jewish people have been in exile for 2,000 years; they have lived in hundreds of countries, spoken hundreds of languages and still they kept their old language, Hebrew. They kept their Aramaic, later their Yiddish; they kept their books; they kept their faith.
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I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
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I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
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It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.
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Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.
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The glorification of sisters, mothers as the selfless Indian women who will do 'agni pariksha' and the one who sees her own betterment only in the betterment of their husbands and fathers, that has to stop. It's very regressive.
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As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.
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I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.
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What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? Would you equate artifice and sincerity? Confound appearance with truth? Regard the phantom as the very person? Value counterfeit as cash?
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Human beings can remain spiritual and religious while enjoying the benefits of rational administration of their affairs.
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I do have a sister - I have two sisters.
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Stop this attitude that older people ain't any good anymore! We're as good as we ever were - if we ever were any good.
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Reading the Socratic dialogues one has the feeling: what a frightful waste of time! What's the point of these arguments that prove nothing and clarify nothing?
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The Jewish people have been in exile for 2,000 years; they have lived in hundreds of countries, spoken hundreds of languages and still they kept their old language, Hebrew. They kept their Aramaic, later their Yiddish; they kept their books; they kept their faith.
