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Ephraim Mirvis Quotes

The Holocaust remains unique in contemporary Jewish consciousness for its capacity to engender the most visceral grief and abject pain.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: clergyman
Nationality: south african
Birth: 1956

Topics

Grief Pain Unique Holocaust Jewish

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.

Childhood Dark Reason Out Sights

In philosophy, they talk a lot about humans being actual organic machines, and the idea of free will is something that we've made up. We actually don't have free will. We're acting according to our programming as organic mechanisms.

Free Philosophy Acting Free Will Up

God breathes through us so completely... so gently we hardly feel it... yet, it is our everything.

God Feel Everything Through Us Our

Lots of countries, like Israel, live with terrorism every day, and it doesn't impact their integrity. The big threat to America is the way we react to terrorism by throwing away what everybody values about our country - a commitment to human rights. America is a great nation because we are a good nation.

Robert Kennedy, Jr.

Good Integrity Live Great Day

The mystery of Christopher Wheeldon deepens. Yes, he's the most talented of the younger ballet choreographers - indeed, where's the competition? Yes, he's particularly good at nurturing dancers and identifying their essential qualities.

Robert Gottlieb

Good Competition Mystery Yes Dancers

Ask questions; don't make assumptions.

Angela Ahrendts

Questions Assumptions Ask Make

Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They're on the way out, no matter what anyone does or says, you know.

Animal You Know Way Matter Out

I will direct one day. I need some more life experience before I feel like I can do something like that comfortably. It'd be a feature, it'd be something maybe that I had in writing as well.

Life Experience Day Writing Feel

I grew up with lots of anger, frustration, and violence in my heart.

Heart Anger Frustration Violence Up

When one person does something that works, everyone else wants to do it. So it didn't surprise me at all to see people come with different versions of 'American Idol' and a lot of them are exactly the same but with different twists.

People Me Surprise American Person

The Miguel Syjuco character is not me. I wanted him to represent my own fears and frustrations and guilt, my own worst tendencies and my optimistic expectations. He's a cautionary tale for me. But he's also an examination of the darkest things that haunt me as a person.

Character Me Expectations Guilt Him

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

Joseph Campbell

Religion Facts You Trouble True Way

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