Yitzhak Shamir Quotes
A man who goes forth to take the life of another whom he does not know must believe one thing only - that by his act he will change the course of history.
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I got a New York designer to build my dream store here, which is a little bit of Florence in New York. It's like the Duomo on Madison. I got inspired by Santa Maria Novella and all the Renaissance architecture.
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Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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Fashion anticipates.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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How can the cost of education be the cost of life? It is unacceptable; it is reprehensible that we have allowed it to fester.
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The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
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A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
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The tax incentives in place for 'House of Cards' in Maryland have resulted in hundreds and hundreds of jobs and not just for actors, but for carpenters and waitresses and hotel workers. The amount of hotel nights and meals that the production of a television series brings to a state is staggering.
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I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.
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We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also.
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I've lived my life the way I wanted to, whether scaling the mountains, partying long into the night or having fun playing soccer.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and conformity and batching people. We have to move to a model that is based more on principles of agriculture. We have to recognize that human flourishing is not a mechanical process; it's an organic process. And you cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do, like a farmer, is create the conditions under which they will begin to flourish.
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A man who goes forth to take the life of another whom he does not know must believe one thing only - that by his act he will change the course of history.
