#tract

The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

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But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives. ↗

— Norman Lear

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I am completely attracted to the idea of simplicity, or at least removing things that seem unnecessary when trying to get an idea out there. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#attracted #completely #get #i #i am

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#battle #contend #fighting #known #only

Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

#arts #most #music #really

Israel has its attractions. It's the most dramatic country in the world. Everybody's engaged. Everybody argues. When I leave Israel, I get a little bit bored, you know? ↗

— Shimon Peres

#bit #bored #country #dramatic #engaged

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#easier #hits #home #position #take

I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity. ↗

— Gilda Radner

#creativity #distracted #eventually #get #horny

I'm a fairly ascetic person. And I do most of my writing at night. You don't get distracted, your brain goes into what you are writing about, into the world you're writing about, rather than into the world you're in. ↗

— Caleb Carr

#ascetic #brain #distracted #fairly #get

Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest. ↗

— Christian Dior

#attractive #secret #without #zest