Harold Kushner Quotes
Instead of exhausting ourselves trying to reshape the world to fit our dreams, we are better off using our strength to comfort one another in a world that is almost certain to mock our dreams and break our hearts.
Quotes to Explore
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
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I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.
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The challenge with 'Watchmen' is making sure that the ideas that were in the book got into the movie. That was my biggest stretch. I wanted people to watch the movie and get it. It's one of those things where, over time, it has happened more.
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Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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All the audience cares about is what you put up on the screen.
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I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
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I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's here or in California or when I'm traveling. It's more a part of my life. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life now.
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Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?
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You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.
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I've always had very catholic tastes.
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One night stands are not for me. I think it's gross when you just give it up.
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If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.
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The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet.
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I started to understand that for me, art was no longer about self-expression but about creative engagement with the world. I started to respond in an excited way to making work inside an industry and not feeling the constraints of audience expectation as some kind of thing that I should avoid.
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The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.
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If we have the courage to decide ourselves for peace we will have peace.
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Instead of exhausting ourselves trying to reshape the world to fit our dreams, we are better off using our strength to comfort one another in a world that is almost certain to mock our dreams and break our hearts.
