Cynthia Ozick Quotes

If an essay has a 'motive,' it is linked more to happenstance and opportunity than to the driven will. A genuine essay is not a doctrinaire tract or a propaganda effort or a broadside.

Cynthia Ozick

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The fact is, the Middle East has been going crazy for 50, 60, 70 years. So it's not like, 'Oh, I need an ISIS joke.'

Maz Jobrani

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The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture.

Robert McAfee Brown

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I like to wake up each morning feeling a new man.

Jean Harlow

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But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.

Ronald Reagan

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Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free.

Mary J. Blige

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Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn't 'spiritual.' Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

Joyce Meyer

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The openness on which Apple had built its original empire had been completely reversed - but the spirit was still there among users. Hackers vied to 'jailbreak' the iPhone, running new apps on it despite Apple's desire to keep it closed.

Jonathan Zittrain

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My life was very compartmentalized. I went to a school that was all white, and then I went home and to my black family.

Chirlane McCray

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My job is to perform, enjoy cricket and thank God for whatever he has given me.

Suresh Raina

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If you're working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.

Noam Chomsky

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Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.

Kwame Nkrumah

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I've always had a tomboy quality to me that I embrace and don't run away from. At the same time I'm a real girlie-girl.

Julianna Margulies

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