Leonard Nimoy Quotes

I am very troubled by this horrible issue of 'who is a Jew?' I'm very simplistic about it. I ask, if Hitler were here, would he consider me a Jew? And of course he'd say yes, and that's the end of that. If we were all in line to go to Auschwitz, would the Orthodox pull us out of line and say, 'You're not a Jew'?

Leonard Nimoy

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• There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Work
  • Money
  • Way

• I try to stay as naive as possible so I'm not as aware as much of the risks.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Try
  • Possible
  • Risks

• I'm a slave to the culture, so I see an Audi, a Denali, or an Escalade, my neighbor got the four-door Porsche. I have a really nice truck. But it's a Durango and I like frontin'! I like to ride by and show off.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Culture
  • Nice
  • Door

• Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • House
  • You
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• As soon as it was clear, in Copenhagen in 2009, that the Senate was blocking Obama from introducing meaningful climate legislation, the push was for him to use executive authority, use the EPA, use the tool of federal leases, and there was just a refusal to do it.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Meaningful
  • Authority
  • Him

• Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • You
  • Wish
  • Happiness

• When you're old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing.

  

  Sally Field
  • Good
  • May
  • Bad

• I rode a shark once. I wouldn't recommend it. It was fun, but I thought I was going to get eaten the entire time! Nothing against sharks. I love sharks. I just don't think we are meant to ride them.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Think

• There are tons of examples of U.K. and European mistakes. A classic one is pensions. That's obviously not an America-specific thing. The British and European economies are suffering under the weight of what is to come. The next great Ponzi scheme after Madoff is probably pensions.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Great
  • America
  • Suffering

• 'The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppresses a woman.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Politics

• Solar power is going to be absolutely essential to meeting growing energy demands while staving off climate change.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Power
  • Energy
  • Growing

• I play to see what I can accomplish. I don't play for fun. I play to see how good I can be.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Good
  • Fun
  • I Can

• I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Think
  • Young
  • Dislike

• If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • Man
  • Lost
  • Eye

• Travel is wonderful. Everyone thinks it's wonderful.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Travel
  • Wonderful
  • Everyone

• Cinnamon bites and kisses simultaneously.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Kisses
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• Nec facile invenias multis in milibus unum,virtutem pretium qui putet esse sui.ipse decor, recte facti si praemia desint,non movet, et gratis paenitet esse probum.nil nisi quod prodest carum est.

  

  Ovid

• The only antidote to the magic of images is the magic of words.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Words
  • Magic

• I don't really consider myself an impressionist.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Myself
  • Really
  • Consider

• I think all people's lives are controlled by their decisions. You look at people's lives - it's not their conditions, it's their decisions. So everybody has a choice and every moment in your life you're making decisions.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • People
  • Decisions
  • Lives

• We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • American
  • Leadership

• I'm not a poet. I'm not up onstage to get something off my chest. I'm making musical statements, or, most of the time, musical questions for people to figure out, and I'm not going to get in the way of that.

  

  Mike Patton Faith No More
  • People
  • Poet
  • Musical

• I am very troubled by this horrible issue of 'who is a Jew?' I'm very simplistic about it. I ask, if Hitler were here, would he consider me a Jew? And of course he'd say yes, and that's the end of that. If we were all in line to go to Auschwitz, would the Orthodox pull us out of line and say, 'You're not a Jew'?

  

  Leonard Nimoy