Eli Yishai Quotes
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People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wanna-be.'
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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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Modelling wasn't a passion of mine, so that made it get old kind of quickly. I was getting very frustrated.
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The very provision of benches by the council or the corporation acknowledges the human need to be private in public, to be conspicuously idle, to have nothing better to do.
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Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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He who wishes to paint Christ's story must live with Christ.
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Unless you have a real passion for making movies, then don't bother. I had to carry energy and light into every meeting, only to be told, 'We don't want you.' I couldn't take it personally. You just have to wait, and live for those moments when the casting director likes you.
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I think 30 is a big jump from your 20s, but 40 holds no fear for me.
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Being positive may be a character defect of mine.
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I'm known to be hands on 100%. I don't know any other way to be than a leader by example.
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Young people should travel, and they don't. You can't know if you don't go.
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An old friend of mine, an economist by trade, once explained to me that the statistical definition of 'dilemma' is 49.9% in favor and 50.1% against. If the gap is greater, there is no dilemma, because the answer is clear.
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At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view.
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I don't think there's ever been anyone like me that's lasted. And I'm going to keep on lasting.
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Tennessee Williams is an incredible writer for women because, in many ways, his women characters are him. He writes so passionately.
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How many more school shootings do we need before we start talking about this as a social problem, and not merely a random collection of isolated incidents?
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Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
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When I was growing up, David Bowie was my idol. I grew up in inner-city London, and he was from Brixton, which is even more urban.
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For me, 'Far Beyond Driven' just had an oomph that kicked it over the edge and just pure aggression. And I always appreciated that.
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A soldier has one item that cannot be neglected. His feet. They are his wheels, his mechanised warfare.
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I started writing in 1948 - basically.
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Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?
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Construction in Jerusalem cannot be halted.
