Jonathan Sacks Quotes

What I find fascinating about Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights we celebrate at this time of the year, is the way its story was transformed by time.

Jonathan Sacks

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TimeCelebrateStoryYearFindWay

My mum was never too keen on TV, so we kids all went to the library and got books out. Right from the start, I loved the works of Mark Twain. Every time I read about Tom Sawyer, I'd go out and do something low-level naughty, just like him.

John Grisham

TimeStartLibraryLovedGoNever

There's different ways to approach music for sleeping. Things like white noise are functional, like a lullaby. This is more like an inquiry, a question about how music and sleep fit together.

Max Richter

MusicTogetherSleepWhiteSleeping

My sound is sort of India Arie meets Colbie Caillat. It's got a sweet-funk to it.

Alyson Stoner

IndiaSoundGotSortMeets

A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy, family values, primitive communism, ecological sustainability, communitarian solidarity, or harmonies with the rhythms of nature.

Steven Pinker

FamilyNatureCommunismValuesMoral

When you don't have a voice like Michele Bachmann's, who personifies all of the good things that the Tea Party has come to mean to America, then it's more difficult to have any sort of unified or representative message with the same profile in the media.

Trent Franks

GoodTeaGood ThingsVoiceMedia

I think the whole 'tiger mom' thing is a very common trope. People like to show Asian moms giving pressure, but they don't really show the love that comes with it.

Ronny Chieng

LovePeopleMomThinkPressure

I felt very insecure about whether I was up to recreating my stage 'Fagin' in front of a camera.

Ron Moody

CameraStageUpFrontVeryInsecure

Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.

Michael Mandelbaum

FootballPeopleLovedViolenceRome

Things that look like an 'overnight success' typically are not.

Jason Calacanis

SuccessLookOvernight SuccessThings

I think people always respond to real moments.

David Walton

PeopleThinkMomentsRealRespond

I have been writing since I was old enough to spell. I have never considered not writing.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

WritingEnoughNeverOldBeenSpell

We've got one life and the older we get the more we come to realize how short it is.

Brian Lumley

LifeShortMoreRealizeGetCome

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