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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When you're old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing.
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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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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.
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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 play to see what I can accomplish. I don't play for fun. I play to see how good I can be.
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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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She found more gratification in teaching one willing student than a dozen resentful ones.
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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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Republicans - well, we're all part of the same family. We need to have some good disagreements with each other; we need to debate, but in the end, it's all about uniting, not dividing.
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I have learned that the stuff that causes me anxiety, the stuff I instinctively veer away from, is usually a road map to where my own creative growth can be found. So I consciously head toward the places that make me uncomfortable.
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Play before you get good, because by the time you get good, you're too old to play.
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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'?
