Edmond Jabes Quotes
It is not certainty which is creative, but the uncertainty we are pledged to in our works.
Quotes to Explore
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Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.
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As an entrepreneur, you tend to see the opportunities where others see none.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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Politics colours everything, and anyone who wants change is necessarily political. As an environmental campaigner more or less since I left school in the early '90s, I have always been involved in lobbying, campaigning and pushing for changes.
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One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
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My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
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The principles governing Western democracies, of which Israel rightly considers itself a part, are based on the assurance that everyone has a vote, but also that the minority needs to yield to the wishes of the majority.
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The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
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Imagine: in the medieval ages, there was no evidence of how the history of mankind has been affected by witchcraft. But there is significant factual history of how brutality and sadism of mankind have been displayed in the most obscene manner in the name of witch-hunt.
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The thing I don't like about detective stories is looking for criminals.
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I'm not the biggest Miley Cyrus fan. I'm not the risque type.
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Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge.
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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
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Everyone deserves to have their voice heard.
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I don't want to play everyone's best friend. I don't want to play the role of a girl struggling in the ghetto. It's not that that story isn't important, but I saw patterns, and was like, 'I don't relate to these people.'
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I stuck with my education, you know, I really did that for my grandma. It meant a lot to her that I finished school and in the grand scheme of things it was her who had saved and helped provide for me this opportunity to go to school.
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You don't have to prove anything to anyone.
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It is a myth to think that sometimes creative disagreement doesn't necessarily produce a better result.
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Prior to being bullied, I was a very footloose sixth-grader. You know, I was quirky, I was creative - I really felt good in my own body. And when I was bullied in seventh grade, my self-esteem tanked.
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I'm so vigorous, and I so take it for granted, because I've always been a real physical person.
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It is not certainty which is creative, but the uncertainty we are pledged to in our works.
