Jonathan Sacks Quotes

If you want a free society, teach your children what oppression tastes like. Tell them how many miracles it takes to get from here to there. Above all, encourage them to ask questions. Teach them to think for themselves.

Jonathan Sacks

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Well, I've been recording myself on a computer since I was about 13 or 14. So it's completely entwined with my creative process. Essentially, it allows you to make music that's better and smarter than you are, by using your ears to lead the way.

St. Vincent

MusicMyselfCreativeProcessBetter

I've written and passed laws to give Medicare beneficiaries access to life saving cancer drugs and to ensure that seniors don't have to give up the prospect of a cure when they go into hospice care.

Ron Wyden

LifeCareGoUpCancerSeniors

A strange potion runs through the basketball blood of Portland. It's stayed hot from the days of games at the Memorial Coliseum, where the Blazers played from their inception in 1970 until 1995.

Rowan Ricardo Phillips

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I grew up in the Boston suburbs and inherited a stubborn New England refusal to acknowledge frigid temperatures.

Josh Gondelman

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For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.

Dolly Parton

WorkGoodWomenLuckBetterReason

In my personal life, if you ask me something which I feel is important, I will talk about it. Like, if you ask me about my sons, I will talk.

Dhanush

LifeMeFeelYouImportantPersonal

You embrace disruption. I think it's a good thing.

Denise Morrison

GoodThinkYouEmbraceDisruption

I like to get emotional when I watch my entertainment.

Dean Devlin

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On 'Heroes' I got to work with Greg Grunberg all the time and Masi Oka, and they both are just wonderful actors. I don't know - you learn so much by watching people like that, I guess.

Brea Grant

WorkTimePeopleLearnYouKnow

If pluralism and academic freedom are to be used to defend liberal speakers and ideas, they ought to be equally valid for conservative views.

Bob Beckel

FreedomIdeasConservativeDefend

I have dual citizenship; it just so happens I live in America. I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood, and at least three times a week dream I am back there.

Anthony Hopkins

LiveChildhoodI AmAmericaWeekGo

In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.

William Weld

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