Lynn Schusterman Quotes
A Jewish community that is diverse and openly embraces all who seek to lead actively Jewish lives will be a Jewish community that is stronger and more enduring for generations to come.
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People hear the examples of kids who work when they're young, have bad experiences, and then have a rough life after that, but a lot of it is just about the people around you.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
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To me, country music has always been the home for a great song.
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Gluttony is not a secret vice.
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Just now, Christianity is in the ascendant. Buddhism and Taoism are decadent; their influence cannot long hold its own. Buddhism has long since passed its meridian; Taoism has only demons, not gods.
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You can be in the shape of your life, and then injury strikes. So you have to grab your opportunities.
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The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoor Championships to being world outdoor gold medallist.
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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I certainly never saw myself as posh.
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There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.
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An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God.
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The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion.
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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.
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'You go up to a man, and you say, ‘How are things going, Joe?’ And he says, ‘Oh fine, fine-couldn’t be better.’ And you look into his eyes, and you see things really couldn’t be much worse. When you get right down to it, everybody’s having a perfectly lousy time of it, and I mean everybody. And the hell of it is, nothing seems to help much.'
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I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.
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One of the best kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.
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A Jewish community that is diverse and openly embraces all who seek to lead actively Jewish lives will be a Jewish community that is stronger and more enduring for generations to come.
