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Shmuel Yosef Agnon Quotes

If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: ukrainian
Birth: July 17, 1888 - February 17, 1970

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Blessing Food Drink Over Eat Must

Male? Female? It's not always relevant to some people. They are who they are - they might not fit into a specific box.

People Some People Always Box Who

My personal mission statement is to combine the intimately human and the grandly cosmic. I like to think that science fiction works on these two different scales.

Robert J. Sawyer

Science Think Mission Personal Human

In point of fact all Americans are automatically turned down by China these days because of the escalation of Johnson's war in Vietnam, which several times has intruded into China.

Anna Louise Strong

War Down Point Days China Vietnam

Not at all, I wanted to go into medicine. I took science in college. But my dad was a Producer - Director in Kannada films, and someone saw me, and one thing led to another.

Science College Me Medicine Someone

Some of the writers I admire who seem very, very funny and very emotional to me can develop a closeness with the reader without giving too much of themselves away. Lorrie Moore comes to mind, as does David Sedaris. When they write, the reader thinks that they're being trusted as a friend.

Funny Friend Mind Me Giving Admire

You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things.

You Radio Things Kinds Heard Turned

I need to learn every day.

Day Learn Every Day Need Every

Staring down the barrel of a gun is the scariest thing you could ever experience. It's not funny. It's not for the movies.

Christina Milian

Funny Experience Gun You Down Ever

In many countries, women aren't jubilant when they learn they are pregnant. Quite the opposite - they're terrified.

Christy Turlington

Women Learn Opposite Quite Many

I love getting on You Tube to look at the old comics. I am in my element seeing guys like Jack Benny and Phil Silvers give interviews.

Love I Am You Seeing Look Old

I'm not a politician. I'm not running for office. I can say what I think.

Think I Can Say Office Politician

I try to stay out of the spotlight as much as humanly possible, because I think that when actors, whether or not they've chosen it or it has been thrust upon them, are living very public lives, it affects your ability to get lost in their performances.

Think Lost Living Possible Try Out

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