Akiva ben Joseph Quotes
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The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
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I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.
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There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.
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I never predicted that I'd be a comedian, but it was something that came so naturally to me. I just felt good doing it.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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I was an idiot in terms of career-building, but I had a great time.
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
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I am lucky enough to be married to a personal trainer. He's able to whip me into shape pretty quickly.
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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.
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The general market wants what I do.
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Virgin America flyers tend to be more likely to be using a mobile device and tapping social networks - even at 35,000 feet.
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I started off as a 'Star Trek' fan, and to be able to work on the series was a great honor.
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There's such a stereotype about men and women. Obviously, people think men are faster and stronger and all these other things, and I don't want people to get sucked into that anymore. I want them to realize that the women are out here and doing just as awesome things. They can be just as great, too.
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When I was 17, I decided I was going to leave home.
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I've always been really inspired by watching top athletes putting in peak performances.
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When I was 7 and went to the zoo with my second-grade class, I saw chimpanzee eyes for the first time - the eyes of an unhappy animal, all alone, locked in a bare, concrete-floored, iron-barred cage in one of the nastier, old-fashioned zoos. I remember looking at the chimp, then looking away.
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I'll need every ounce that I have to drive it through. Film and TV require that energy. Sometimes fight scenes can be pretty intense. When I was shooting 'Heaven' it was truly guerrilla film-making.
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It's nowhere in here And its everywhere else that I don't wanna be, But I'm stuck here getting misty over you I'm alone on a bicycle for two.
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I want the belt. Always.
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...discovering you are not identical with yourself even in the most disturbing and painful way still contains the glimmer, however refracted, of the world to come, where everything is the same but a little different because the past will be citable in all of its moments, including those that from our present present happened but never occurred.
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The Anatomy of Melancholy was regarded by Sir William Osler, Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford (1905–19), as the greatest medical treatise every written by a layman.
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With the American failure came world failure.
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Jesting and levity accustom a man to lewdness.
