Eli Yishai Quotes
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I don't take on a fight just for a fight. I don't tilt at windmills.
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I'm very much a person of nurture over nature. When the world is not nurturing, it can really change a man.
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The Jews were gassed. Armenians were killed in every conceivable way... So the Holocaust doesn't interest me, see? They've had a lot of publicity, but they didn't suffer as much.
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When you write a novel, you never have to be in the service of the reader. My only concern with my books is that the world that's created be as logical and whole as possible.
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Creating stuff is hard. But, if that terrifies you, you will just be numb, and you better just stay at home and watch TV and do something else. Move into the woods and live with the trees.
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Circumstances dictate your set of values, your set of morals.
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The story of Warner Brothers' movie, 'Mildred Pierce,' recounts the enormous and unrewarded sacrifices that a mother (Joan Crawford) makes for her spoiled, greedy daughter (Ann Blythe).
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Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against.
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There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician.
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People who want to rise above a well-cooked meal and a well-tailored garment, are out of their spiritual minds.
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Say not, 'I have found the path of the soul.' Say rather, 'I have found the soul walking upon my path.' For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.
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Out there in the spotlight you're a million miles away.Every ounce of energy you try to give away.As the sweat pours out your body like the music that you play.Later in the evening, as you lie awake in bed.With the echoes from the amplifiers ringin' in your head.You smoke the day's last cigarette, rememberin' what she said.
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In my lifetime all our problems have come from mainland Europe and all the solutions have come from the English-speaking nations across the world.
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I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great men - with Olivier Assayas, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette. I am tutored by them.
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The financial doctrines so zealously followed by American companies might help optimize capital when it is scarce. But capital is abundant. If we are to see our economy really grow, we need to encourage migratory capital to become productive capital - capital invested for the long-term in empowering innovations.
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I would like to dunk on Shaq.
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I'm from Sacramento, and I have no idea what growing up in a city is like.
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I always tell people that revelling in big ideas for me is kind of like an antidote to existential angst.
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I just don't see myself as retiring. As long as I'm healthy and can play the drums, that's what I'm going to do because that's the most fun thing that I know how to do.
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I shall really be very unhappy unless you give me the sort of courage that makes one forget he is afraid.
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'The Three Stooges' is great. And I was worried, just because there's so many things that have to go right. All three of those guys have to be amazing - everything has to be amazing. And everything went right.
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Effectively, what we are saying to the governments of Europe is, 'OK, after 300 years, you have left these islands in a pretty bad state. You've left them with terrible developmental challenges, and we believe you have a responsibility to return to the Caribbean and participate in the rebuilding of the Caribbean.'
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I'm not the Eritrean welfare minister and not the Sudanese labor minister.
