Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes
People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.
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No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.
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My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
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A lot of guys try to mingle with me because of who I am. If I encounter a guy with a clean heart, I will go by my instincts. I guess my man won't be from the film industry.
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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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For many children, the library represents their only access to books, reading, and the Internet outside of their home. If you think about how far behind a child would be without access to these fundamental tools - tools that are vital to successful employment later in life - it's a travesty.
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All the reasons that have made software so successful are beginning to happen with hardware. So much can be done so quickly, prototyped so rapidly, and the costs are so low.
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I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.
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I like being unconventional.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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Every single administration in American political history has put cronies and pals and donors into political positions. But normally those people become the ambassador to Liechtenstein or the deputy undersecretary of commerce.
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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
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People with a mission to save the earth want the earth to seem worse than it is so their mission will look more important.
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I suppose that the Western has always been a kind of mold to which you could pour the concerns of the day, but have them seen in the simple terms of the Western, of one alley or whatever.
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I know that I came into the world with what I call 'big dharma' - with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.
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I was a highly sensitive kid, sort of an old soul, and I felt like a lot of people in my peer group didn't fully understand me, or I couldn't fully be myself. I just wasn't engaged in a way that was fulfilling me.
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People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.
