Ovadia Yosef Quotes
When we ask God to 'bring an end to our enemies,' we should be thinking about Iran, those evil ones who threaten Israel.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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I grew up with my stepfather in Brighton, but I did spend a lot of time with my natural father, and I was loved by both, so I suppose the advantage of this was that I wasn't bound by one set of experiences; I always had an alternative.
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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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We have a George Foreman grill on the bus.
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If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.
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I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.
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Performers are the neediest people in the world. Unless you've been in that goldfish bowl - nobody can judge unless they've worn those shoes.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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Since the commencement of 1830, I had been living with Mr. Joseph Travis, who was to me a kind master and placed the greatest confidence in me; in fact, I had no cause to complain of his treatment of me.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.
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I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.
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There is a big difference between No. 1 and No. 2. I don't care who wrote it. I'd love to one day have a No. 1 that I wrote, but if that ain't in the cards, whatever. My job is right now is to make the best music I can and try to get it to the people, whether it be something that I wrote or not. It's my job to be the best I can for the fans.
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I don't have a big appetite. I don't eat a lot, to be honest - never. I'm a bit like a little bird, picking all day long, but I'm not getting pasta or getting all those things, you know?
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Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.
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I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York.
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My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She's a U.S. citizen, so I'm a U.S. citizen.
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I learned that the majority of the time, simplicity is the best way to go about things as you peel away the layers... that's when you start finding the gold... I can't say that was from my own acting. That was from observing actors like John Spencer and Martin Sheen... I had a chance just to observe.
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I just feel like if I really believe what Dr. King said, 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,' then I should be compelled to use my God-given platform to effect change.
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Success is always less funny than failure.
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If it was up to me, if you uttered the word 'gun control,' we'd put you in jail.
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When we ask God to 'bring an end to our enemies,' we should be thinking about Iran, those evil ones who threaten Israel.
