Ovadia Yosef Quotes
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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A leader is admired, a boss is feared.
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I guess I've always been really attracted to period pieces and always felt visually I was probably more made for the '50s or the early '60s than I am for a modern day.
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The establishment of Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world.
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I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
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The minute I saw the front page of the 'Daily Telegraph' - me with my arm around the latest 'X-Factor' contestant - I realised I'd gone into a new realm.
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It won't do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most exemplifies the kind of organization and behavior required who is best able to create the conditions such organizations require.
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People can be teachers and idiots; they can be philosophers and idiots; they can be politicians and idiots... in fact I think they have to be... a genius can be an idiot. The world is largely run for and by idiots; it is no great handicap in life and in certain areas is actually a distinct advantage and even a prerequisite for advancement.
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The world in all doth but two nations bear —The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere.
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It's a murky world out there, and it's hard to figure things out sometimes.
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A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.
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Where there is Torah it sustains the world.
