Ari Shavit Quotes
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I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
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Small companies need capital to invest, expand, and create jobs. And the economy needs a healthy small business community to bolster and sustain its recovery.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.
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I went to Phoenix, Arizona for 'Angel Unchained,' and they'd hire the bike gang from Phoenix to be extras in the movie.
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I am happy in Paris.
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In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.
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I grew up in a family of secrets; there was a lot of pathology in the family.
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They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.
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They definitely mean to maintain that the process called death is a mere severence of soul and body, and that the soul is freed rather than injured thereby.
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It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
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My father's biggest achievement was to motivate the South Korean people, to show them we could become prosperous if we worked hard. He taught me to love my country, and serve my country.
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I do not ask, O Lord, that life may beA pleasant road.I do not ask that Thou wouldst take from meAught of its load;
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The minute we leave south Lebanon we will have to erase the word Hezbollah from our vocabulary, because the whole idea of the State of Israel versus Hezbollah was sheer folly from the outset. It most certainly no longer will be relevant when Israel returns to her internationally recognized northern border.
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I started writing music in a French way: more focused on lyrics than melody.
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The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
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These days I am obsessed by sculpture! I believe I have glimpsed a complete renovation of that mummified art.
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I'd say that I'm a very friendly, outgoing, happy person who just wants to make the people around me happy.
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The hateful thing about most hotels nowadays is that they only have duvets. I hate duvets.
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We are still a people in danger. And yet I urge us not to get addicted to it.
