"The Jews had a love-hate relationship with the Greek culture. They craved its civilization but resented its dominance. Josephus says they regarded Greeks as feckless, promiscuous, modernizing lightweights, yet many Jerusalemites were already living the fashionable lifestyle using Greek and Jewish names to show they could be both. Jewish conservatives disagreed; for them, the Greeks were simply idolaters."

-- Simon Sebag-Montefiore

#Hate Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Names Quotes

“I don't have to listen to the Gospel on Sunday to know the stories of the New Testament. They inform so much of what I write that they're practically like a news scrim that goes through my brain 24/7.”
“I don't have 'gears.' I play one way. That's all I've ever known. I WILL.”
“During Katherine Hepburn's time when she was just coming into her own at 40.”
“There's only just so much you can do; I prefer to do only a couple of things and go to some depth in them.”

Source : "The Music Show" with Andrew Ford, www.abc.net.au. August 24, 2002.
“That's the luck we have with making films in Europe. It's still, in some ways, a virgin territory for a lot of stories. It's funny to see people in 10-gallon hats somewhere in France or Switzerland. You think, "Wow, is this real?" You do it in Wyoming and it's redundant.”
“Don't matter if you believe in them or not. If they're there, they're there,' Mrs. Phipps said.”

Source : Joan Lowery Nixon (2007). “The Haunting”, p.111, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
“I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.”
“I had taken some of my solo music into the record label. They didn't really care for the direction I was moving in and I found it really disheartening. They wanted a pop hit, which I understand in terms of making money. I get that. But what they were going to ask of me was something I wasn't prepared to deliver and I felt kind of trapped. I just stopped writing. I just stopped. It was stifling.”

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