Chaim Potok Quotes
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To live in New York is to see the world as it is to come.
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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It's not that I don't want a fast car. I like the speed. I'm just not the type of person who finds a sports car a sexy car.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.
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The forthputting of willpower is a means of strengthening willpower. The will becomes strong by exercise. To stick to a thing till you are master is a test of intellectual discipline and power.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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My dad is afraid of my laugh.
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I have a very wonderfully, bizarrely amazing relationship with my mother in that we've been through a myriad of emotions because we've acted together and played all these different kinds of mother-daughters.
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The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.
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There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.
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From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.
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Don't take 'no' for an answer.
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If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
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Seeing a full display of humanity involved in space is a game-changer for everyone. We've all looked at the stars; we've all imagined what was going on. Not everyone wants to go, but everyone wants to know what it's like.
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I'm constantly hydrating my hair.
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I'm so associated with being young and being with a teenager.
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Dying is easy. Comedy is hard.
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When you check out at PetSmart, the cashier usually asks you if you want to donate money to PetSmart charities to help save the animals. Usually, we're so busy we don't even pay attention.
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Words are things, but things which mean. We cannot do away with meaning without doing away with signs, that is, with language itself. Moreover, we would have to do away with the universe. All the things man touches are impregnated with meaning.
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I write when the urge hits me, getting the words down as fast as I can type and then I step back from what I just wrote and start a dialectical process where I begin challenging my own writing.
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In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism.
