Eli Yishai Quotes
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I am someone who tweets about what I have for breakfast, what I have for lunch, what I have for dinner, and for 99.99999 percent of the world, it's useless. It's meaningless. But for my mother, she loves it.
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How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.
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You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.
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If I say 'Find me an interesting painting' to Google, someday a robot could go around the Picasso museum and take a picture for me.
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I know when you're in the business of cover sports, you look for 60-minute games and a result. It's never that simple.
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I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
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I'd rather win two or three, lose one, win two or three more. I'm a great believer in things evening out. If you win a whole bunch in a row, somewhere along the line you're going to lose some too.
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With every film that you do, you're always so nervous. You feel exposed because you know people will see this eventually. You sort of have to put all that out of your head. What will be will be. But it's nerve wracking.
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Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.
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A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it.
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All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.
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In a much larger sense, the problem of Sabah is directly influenced by the duplicity of imperial Britain. For whatever devious reason, the dismantling of the British empire created divisions and violence due to ethnic and religious differences.
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I started with paragliding. Paragliding is taking off from mountains with a paraglider, with the possibility to fly cross-country, distance, just with the use of thermals to soar. Also, different aerobatic maneuvers are possible with a paraglider. From there, I started with skydiving.
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I'm not good at accepting help.
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In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy.
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It's a tragedy. It was tragedy for Freddie Gray and the family. It was a tragedy for the city. And we're still trying to figure out how it happened and why it happened.
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When we fought for freedom, for the establishment of a Jewish state, we didn't send a questionnaire to the Jewish nation asking if it wanted a Jewish state.
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I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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Badgered, snubbed and scolded on the one hand; petted, flattered and indulged on the other-it is astonishing how many children work their way up to an honest manhood in spite of parents and friends. Human nature has an element of great toughness in it.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry.
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I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.
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Perfection does not exist - only God is perfect.
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I remember going to my school careers advisor and asked about jobs that required scuba divers. It was a phase.
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If you want to be Jewish, welcome, but convert via the Halacha.
