Ari Shavit Quotes
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The army should go back to their assigned duties, and police should take the responsibility of fighting the cartels.
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I sleep a lot on Sunday. It's really great.
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It's a blessing to have fans acknowledging your craft, period.
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Sometimes compromise is painful.
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In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.
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The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.
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When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.
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Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.
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Some people don't understand that I - as an artist and a person - I want to make my own decisions and create the music that I personally like.
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Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.
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Those who liberated the South from Israel must show allegiance to Lebanon.
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TV in all its ugliness can be a beautiful thing.
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I've been offered jobs by companies that supported apartheid many times in the 25 years of my modeling career, but I have never taken one of them. I have to refuse that money, because I'm not going to work against my people. They've suffered enough.
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It is a difficult one, as you get scripts where women are just objects.
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Cooking is for chefs. Science informs us and lets us cook while knowing what we are doing, but it is not a replacement for the skills of a chef.
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A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?
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When I heard Aretha, I could feel her emotional delivery so clearly. It came from down deep within. That's what I wanted to do.
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I'm just letting it go. I'm swinging at what I need to swing at. And when the time comes, I'll just do what I always done. It's just a matter of going out and feeling better. I feel like I'm involved in spring training and when that's the case I'm going to be myself.
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When I was 16 I'd watch 'The Godfather,' but I didn't think, 'Right, I'm going to go down the barber's and get some protection money off him.'
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One must scratch that part of the body or mind that itches.
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I fight, knock them out, have some sex and Monday I’m back to hitting bags and kicking ass.
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I say at the very end of "Winter Journal" that I do dream about my father often. I think I have a tremendous compassion for him, which has grown over the years. A certain kind of pity for him also in that he was so unrealised as a human being, so dogged, and so shut-off from people in many ways. You know, I've been writing another book, and it's another non-fiction autobiographical work, kind of a compliment to "Winter Journal", and it's just finished.
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I'm not stopping. My dream has come true, and I'm staying.
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From whence have we come,” he asked, “and how far have we fallen?
