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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I'm very passionate about what I do.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
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It's absurd to think that desire for attention doesn't drive both women and men. Why are women scrutinized for it more, then?
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I learned that life is about the people around you and the people you give back to. That's what parenting is: You're not there for yourself; you're there for your offspring and everyone else around you.
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Citizenship in New York is now worth no more than citizenship in Arkansas, for it is open to any applicant from the marshes of Bessarabia, and, still worse, to any applicant from Arkansas.
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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.
