Maimonides Quotes
Those who believe that... detailed rules originate in a certain cause, are as far from the truth as those who assume that the whole law is useless.
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Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they'd probably throw you out. That's very hard.
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I chose my house because I loved the fact that there was a really busy road with lots of things to stare at.
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It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.
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I believe that first impressions are very important.
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I didn't go to church, I didn't go to synagogue; I went to temple, Hindu temple, where I prayed to my Hindu gods - whether or not I believe in it is another story.
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If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.
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I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don't have one.
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Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.
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When I walked out on the mound, I felt enclosed. You see, I'd been used to playing on pastures, where when somebody hit a ball you had to stop it from rolling. Well, this field had fences around it.
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Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.
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I thought our community should have a deep dialogue to make black America better. I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.
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I believe in one power, and that is the hand of God. I respect all religions.
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You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.
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I'm a great believer in chaos. I don't believe that you start with a formula and then you fulfill the formula. Chaos is a much better instigator, because we live in chaos - we don't live in a rigorous form.
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I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.
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I believe that we are going to have a much deeper appreciation of what kinds of abnormalities in cancer cells and in the surrounding cells that feed and respond to cancers are vulnerabilities that will allow us to make better predictions of which kinds of drugs will work to treat these cancers.
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Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.
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I don't believe in environmentalism as the solution to anything. What I believe is that environmentalism illuminates the things that need to be done to solve all of the problems together.
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We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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Any such inklings were like a few scattered grains of truth dissolved in an ocean of nonsense, and were anyway generally inextricably bound up with patently paranoid ravings which served only to devalue the small amounts of sense and pertinence with which they were associated.
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There is a higher law than the Constitution.
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I feel like, if I'm going to have young, impressionable people listening to my music, then I'm going to respect that.
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When I was a young kid, the best stuff on television was always the BBC period dramas - it was what we sat down as a family to watch and what people talked about and looked forward to.
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Those who believe that... detailed rules originate in a certain cause, are as far from the truth as those who assume that the whole law is useless.
