Edmond Jabes Quotes
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You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.
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I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.
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I don't think that 60-70 percent of working-class white voters would have supported a Muslim ban before Donald Trump said something about a Muslim ban.
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Don't gamble the future of your children and Malaysia; think and contemplate because your vote will determine not only the future of the country but also your grandchildren.
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I want to take a more international direction with my career.
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Cut off the head of the snake
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but the endless, tameless pilgrimage of hearts.
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In defeating terror, Israel’s cause is our cause.
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The less somebody knows and understand himself the less great he is, however great may be his talent. For this reason our scientists are not great.
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I'm doing good. I've had a slight nervous breakdown in the '60s. I got through that. And I got through the '70s. And I was in a doctor's program during the '80s and then I met Melinda and we've been together ever since. I've got a happy life.
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Every day proves to me more and more that this American world was not made for me.
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I started reading DC stuff much later in my life. You realize that there's a huge difference between the Marvel universe and the DC universe and the characters that own it.
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Based on my experience, I believe that Ben Sasse has the right policy background, a notable commitment to public service - and, perhaps most importantly, the courage - to help renew our country.
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I don't think Brexit is going to help people in Britain.
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When you get up there in years, the fairways get longer and the holes get smaller.
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I need a producer who will look for a good script. I need a director whose purpose to make a film is not for his survival but because he loves making films.
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When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me.
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I'm pretty athletic and I play basketball a lot.
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When I did get signed and I was going around letting people know what I was about, that's exactly how I did it: me on the piano, playing a couple of songs I'd written and talking to the people in between. That's how I got my performance chops up.
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With this new stupid Supreme Court ruling, secret money can come in on an unlimited level from corporations. Nobody knows where it comes from. That distorts the political situation in our country tremendously. Most of that money is spent on negative advertising that is tearing down the character and reputation of your opponent, and it works, although most American people say, "We don't like negative advertising," it works.
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We will not wait for the winds to stop blowing, we won't wait for the sky to turn blue.
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I find it hugely exciting to be dealing with another writer's language.
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Give me the boy who rouses when he is praised, who profits when he is encouraged and who cries when he is defeated. Such a boy will be fired by ambition; he will be stung by reproach, and animated by preference; never shall I apprehend any bad consequences from idleness in such a boy.
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One wound is enough to feed the open wounds of the sky.
