Akiva ben Joseph Quotes

Jesting and levity accustom a man to lewdness.

Akiva ben Joseph

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• The general market wants what I do.

  

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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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• There's nothing romantic about my work... I don't believe in inspiration. I believe that you get to your desk, you stay there, you work, you think of nothing else. You write and you write, and in the end, you write something good.

  

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• Jesting and levity accustom a man to lewdness.

  

  Akiva ben Joseph