Howard Jacobson Quotes

I've always felt as much outside the Jewish experience as in it. It astonished my family that I wrote about things Jewish.

Howard Jacobson

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FamilyExperienceOutsideJewish

I grew up racing off-road trucks. They were on road courses with jumps. I made a name for myself in that style of racing.

Jimmie Johnson

StyleMyselfRoadNameRacingUp

I just want the respect I deserve. Not for what I can do in the future but what I've done in the past. And I just want a fair opportunity, a fair chance, a fair shot to play basketball.

Michael Beasley

FutureOpportunityRespectPastPlay

The tests which showed that this was the only rifle which had the markings which were shown on the bullets; the fact that a man was seen by several witnesses, not identified, but seen in the window with the general description of what he looked like.

John Sherman Cooper

ManWindowSeenTestsOnlyBullets

James Patterson has a way with female characters. He understands women in a way that a lot of male writers don't.

Tracy Pollan

WomenWayHeCharactersFemaleLot

I'm not a party person or someone who likes to sit and drink in clubs all night, and never really have been. I have a good time through work.

Robin Gibb

WorkGoodTimeNightSomeoneParty

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

Russell M. Nelson

StrengthSoulYouExtraordinary

I go through cycles with my writing. I have cycles where I'm up all night and lose track of time, and then I go for months without a thing to write about. My song 'So Good, So Right' came to me while I was washing dishes after a dinner party.

Brenda Russell

GoodTimeMeDinnerWritingSong

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

Anthony Burgess

BelievePotentialYouWillOthers

I never read 'The Cinderella Complex' - I'm too afraid that my name might be in it.

Susan Ford

NameNeverAfraidComplexCinderella

I haven't died in a movie in a while,'The Departed,' 'Body of Lies,' 'Revolutionary Road,' 'Shutter Island' and 'Inception.' I guess I did die in 'The Departed.'

Leonardo DiCaprio

RoadDieBodyIslandLiesMovie

Of all the many leaders I have met in the course of my life, none made a deeper impression on me than Nelson Mandela. His courage, compassion, humility and wisdom were without parallel on the world stage, and he himself was an enduring source of inspiration.

Klaus Schwab

LifeWisdomCourageCompassionWorld

A lot of people who have been perceiving my music have been trying to formulate a genre for it, and I think it's just a natural thing; it doesn't need to be categorized. It doesn't need to be sectioned, if you will.

King Krule

MusicPeopleThinkTryingYouWill

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