When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don’t feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that’s all done, trust comes in. Itzhak Perlman Read Quote
People often ask why I remain so optimistic, even in the face of the complex challenges we are facing in the Jewish world, in Israel and beyond. It’s because I am so impressed and inspired by the young people I meet. Lynn Schusterman Read Quote
The reason that I started the Black Futures Lab is because I have some clarity about what I think needs to happen in relationship to electoral organizing. It’s not a destination. It is a set of tools that we use to engage people that we care about, en masse, around issues that are important to us. Alicia Garza Read Quote
Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe. Franz Kafka Read Quote
Receiving a reputable pro-Israel award isn’t a bad idea for a Democrat or a Republican in a New York City congressional district. Michael Caputo Read Quote
The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language. John C. Hawkes Read Quote
I have the best job in the whole world because I get paid to do something I love. How many people do you know who can say that? Sondra Radvanovsky Read Quote
Romney, like Sen. John McCain and Bob Dole before him, were meant to mollify moderates, attract Independents, and ‘rebrand’ the party in a way that mostly fits the ideal of media types who would never vote Republican anyhow. Each of them lost. Kellyanne Conway Read Quote
In the 2013 Economists Program, we hired 51 percent women, 49 percent men. And the reason for that is that we have a draft from all over the world, and we’ve hired, for instance, in that group, a good number of Chinese economists – highly qualified, all Ph.D.s from the best universities of the world. And guess what? They’re all women. Christine Lagarde Read Quote
New words travel from one variety of English to another and at a rapidly increasing rate, thanks to the way language is exchanged today over e-mail, chat rooms, TV, etc. Susie Dent Read Quote
