Yitzhak Navon Quotes

I grew up in Jerusalem and went to school here. I studied at the Hebrew University - mostly Islam and Arabic: Arab literature, Arab poetry and culture, because I felt like we are living in this region, in the Middle East, and we are not alone: There are nations here whose culture is Arab.

Yitzhak Navon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality: israeli
  • Birth: April 9, 1921 - November 7, 2015

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Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.

Jimmy Breslin

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Through years and years of playing to various audiences, what I've learned is - and I think quite a few actors will agree with me - we're not always the best judge of that audience's reactions or not. And we discover, to our amazement, at the end of the show, they bring the house down with applause, and we thought, 'No way tonight,' you know.

Angela Lansbury

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The brain is not a bag of traits. It's startlingly complex. There are few or no single genes with a consistent effect on the mind.

Steven Pinker

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The manner in which life constructs itself must be dealing with some other principle which we've failed to identify.

Simon Conway Morris

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For the most part, I keep playing big knuckleheads who are like bulls in a china shop.

Rob Riggle

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But I grew up in a place where no one knew anyone in the entertainment business, I never knew it was an actual career. The closest I ever got to movies was going to watch them, and I thought that's the way it would be, so I never considered working in this business.

Joseph Kosinski

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It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would be duelling pianos by grandmothers.

Diane Cilento

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'Arrival' talks very little about language and how to precisely dissect a foreign language. It's more a film on intuition and communication by intuition, the language of intuition.

Denis Villeneuve

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You need to invest in areas where you can be the market leader because then you get a disproportionate share of the economics when you are.

Borje Ekholm

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I am an astronomer, and my job is to look to the heavens to better understand the universe and our place in it.

Brian Schmidt

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People are used to dealing with risk.

Anne Wojcicki

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Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.

Phillips Brooks

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