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'?
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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.
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I try to stay as naive as possible so I'm not as aware as much of the risks.
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Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.
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Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
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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.
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'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.
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Solar power is going to be absolutely essential to meeting growing energy demands while staving off climate change.
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I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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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.
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Travel is wonderful. Everyone thinks it's wonderful.
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Cinnamon bites and kisses simultaneously.
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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.
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A cell is a complex structure, with its investing membrane, nucleus, and nucleolus.
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Sparrow: If you'd get a vasectomy, we wouldn't have to go through this every time.Stuart: But... but you know I want to have a baby eventually.Sparrow: So make some deposits at a sperm bank first. Then we can inseminate like normal people when we're ready.
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The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.
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The people of the United States will not tolerate another deep depression that arises not from any lack of natural resources, productive capacity or man and brain power, but solely from imperfections in the functioning of the system of finance capitalism.
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I never considered acting while growing up. I just knew I didn't want to go into the saloon business: I wanted to get away from Kenosha. And once I left, never, ever did it cross my mind to go back. I went to college and thought I'd study law.
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Putin goes to bed at night knowing he can break all the rules, and the West will follow all the rules.
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There's little kids on trains coming up to me, singing my theme song, and they can barely walk.
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Politics runs in every human being, and so does music.
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I myself am pathetically impressed when I meet writers of very long novels. How can they spend so many hundreds of hours at the miserable, lonely pastime of creating fiction?
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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'?
