Chaim Potok Quotes

Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you are aware of how much you can strain it before you do violence to its essential nature.

Chaim Potok

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 17, 1929 - July 23, 2002

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I'm interested in listening to the people who walk in the door. If your ego and your accomplishments stop you from listening, then they've taught you nothing.

Jimmy Iovine

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Economic development and poverty alleviation are so complicated that I don't think there's a single background or a single discipline that is sufficient to tackle these great human problems.

Jim Yong Kim

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How you recover from what life's throwing at you is what matters.

Joe Namath

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Remember, it is a deep principle of our nature not to regard the safety of those who do not regard their own. If you are indifferent to your own safety, you must not be surprised if those less interested should become more so.

John C. Calhoun

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In Hollywood, it's not what you know but who you know.

Jermaine Fowler

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Yeah, that's what I'm working for. The couture house of the future.

John Galliano

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I am not a 'yes' person. No matter who you are married to, you still need to lead your life.

Melania Trump

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Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody.

Angela Lansbury

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When a relationship doesn't work anymore, it's terrible to stay with someone that you don't love.

Monica Bellucci

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There probably could be some mileage in running a comparative study about how best to finance electoral campaigns around the world.

Jose Angel Gurria

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The Beatles never sounded intimidated by their idols. They never interpreted old rock; they simply played it as well and as joyfully as they knew how. On 'Rock 'n' Roll,' John Lennon does nothing but interpret old rock.

Jon Landau

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Humans are in charge of the planet because we are smarter than other animals and are able to build tools and apply rules. In the future, if something is much, much smarter, there's going to be a transition as to who is actually in charge.

Anthony Levandowski

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