David Novak Quotes

We Jews who willingly and happily confirm our covenantal status and its attendant rights and duties must take the question of mission seriously: either to accept it or reject it knowingly and with conviction.

David Novak

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MissionSeriouslyAcceptQuestion

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

Jimmy Johnson

DifferenceExtraordinaryLittleExtra

Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful.

Joan Didion

TimeStyleMyselfSchoolMeReading

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.

John Dalberg-Acton

MenFindErrorDefendersMonstrous

Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.

Mason Cooley

Common SensePhilosophyRunSense

I was nearly struck by lightning on an excavation in Turkey.

Mary Beard

LightningTurkeyNearlyStruck

In effect, the Internet is a global connection of interconnected computers. It has been described as truly a peer-to-peer system with many distributed nodes and no central point of control architecture.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

ArchitectureControlComputersSystem

I'd love to do more 'Nighty Night,' but that's always down to commissions, really. It's weird as well because everyone's moved on. I don't know if I could get all those people back.

Julia Davis

LovePeopleNightWeirdBackDown

One of my teachers says the sound you hear in the center of the universe is laughter. I don't know if it's true, but if you do something and 30 years later it still produces laughter, that's a fantasy you can't make up.

Joyce DeWitt

LaughterUniverseYouKnowTrueUp

Re-election comes every six years, which explains why I spend so much time on Twitter. If you're an obscure judge whose name ID hovers between infinitesimal and zilch, it's political malpractice to neglect social media. I'm probably the tweetingest judge in America, which, admittedly, is like being the tallest Munchkin in Oz.

Don Willett

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The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.

Dennis Miller

LifeDeathCountryDeath PenaltyWay

But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment.

Donald Judd

MomentExperienceThinkYouKind

I'm coming to that realization that I'm going to be seen as a mom to someone, and it makes you think about your own parents. You know, who were they?

Cobie Smulders

ParentsMomThinkSomeoneYouKnow

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