Tom Reiss quote: "This is the positive way of seeing the modern Jewish dilemma: I am from everywhere. The negative way is no matter where you go, you find out that you're a victim, that you're unwanted and don't belong."

The demons you have are what motivate you to make your art. This is what drives the detective, this ...
TOM REISS

Eighteenth-century doctors prescribed sugar pills for nearly everything: heart problems, headache, c...
TOM REISS

The revolution breaks out; they form this group of swordsmen called the Black Legion. Alex Dumas is ...
TOM REISS

Alex Dumas was a consummate warrior and a man of great conviction and moral courage. He was renowned...
TOM REISS

Remembering people is the most fundamental gesture of love and respect. For me, there are people in ...
TOM REISS

Alexandre Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie - father of the future Alex Dumas - was born on February 26...
TOM REISS

'The Secret Agent' remains the most brilliant novelistic study of terrorism as viewed from t...
TOM REISS

I am definitely of the method-acting school. Everything to me is about sound. I don't dress up i...
TOM REISS

My particular pain is that the world of Jewishness that I identify with - the extremely assimilated,...
TOM REISS

Anthropology seems so bland and friendly now, but in the early 20th century, Jews could only be diss...
TOM REISS

Napoleon's plan was for his army to arrive in Egypt not as conquerors but liberators. Landing in...
TOM REISS

'The Battle of Dorking' was reprinted as a book and became a best-seller.
TOM REISS

The Dumas memoirs - which I also discovered when I was a kid - had a big impact on me.
TOM REISS

The French Revolution was a kind of 21st-century moment in the heart of the 18th century - and Alex ...
TOM REISS

When Czar Ivan III took a liking to the Judaizers, they were invited to Moscow, where they managed t...
TOM REISS

In 1817, Czar Alexander I personally founded the Society of Israelite Christians but had less luck d...
TOM REISS

In early 1798, the Directory, the oligarchy that was ruling revolutionary France, ordered its top ge...
TOM REISS

All anyone agreed on was that Kurban Said was the pen name of a writer who had probably come from Ba...
TOM REISS

By comparison, 'The Secret Agent' is not especially prescient about terrorism, certainly not...
TOM REISS

There's nothing better than to be rootless cosmopolitans who seamlessly merge into whatever soci...
TOM REISS

It was nearly midnight on the night of February 26, 1806, and Alexandre Dumas, the future author of ...
TOM REISS

The French Revolution ends slavery unilaterally. And it does so at this moment when the British, the...
TOM REISS

The Jewish exodus from North Africa, in the late nineteen-fifties and the nineteen-sixties, brought ...
TOM REISS

Today, the world is so awash in sugar - it is such a staple of the modern diet, associated with all ...
TOM REISS

Until 2005, France had the only senior Catholic prelate in modern times who was born Jewish and stil...
TOM REISS

'The Secret Agent,' Joseph Conrad's 1907 novel about an anarchist plot to blow up the Ro...
TOM REISS

Sugar planting was the oil business of the eighteenth century, and Saint-Domingue was the Ancien Reg...
TOM REISS

The life of General Alex Dumas is so extraordinary on so many levels that it's easy to forget th...
TOM REISS

Prisoners around the world have said that reading 'The Count of Monte Cristo' helped them ge...
TOM REISS

When I was a kid, my mum had a lot of Dumas books in the house, and she's from France originally...
TOM REISS

In the winter of 1940, 'The Atlantic Monthly' invited Peter Viereck, a twenty-three-year-old...
TOM REISS

Sometimes we tend to focus more on the personalities and the conflicts, and it really caricatures th...
MITCHELL REISS

The results help explain previous findings suggesting women and men differ in how humor is used and ...
ALLAN REISS

But with lots of good ideas, implementation is the key, and so we need to keep our eye on the ball a...
MITCHELL REISS

Women appeared to have less expectation of a reward, which in this case was the punch line of the ca...
ALLAN REISS

The hope is we will one day be able to identify the highest-risk groups and intervene early to preve...
ALLAN REISS

Again, I think we have much greater diplomatic weight by having all of us sit on the same side of th...
MITCHELL REISS

The format's better because it gives us a much stronger hand to play when going to the North Kor...
MITCHELL REISS

And it has to do with having no inventory or stockpiles on the shelf, but items arrive as you need t...
MITCHELL REISS

I lost three of my four stone crab socials.
ANDREW REISS

I'd have to score five average sized weddings just to compensate for the loss of the Speaker's Ball....
ANDREW REISS

The saddest part of what is going on is the effect on our community. It doesn't affect the home dist...
ANDREW REISS

Everything is Fair in Love, War and Fashion.
REISS FIELD

The nexus between terrorism and nuclear weapons, or even nuclear material, is obviously a current co...
MITCHELL REISS

And it's not surprising that there should be disagreement - it'd be a little surprising if there was...
MITCHELL REISS

During rehearsals, to keep things lively, I'd sometimes make up something a little dirty - or very d...
JAY REISS

We have a model that we're following, and it's the Libya model.
MITCHELL REISS

Now North Korea certainly is located in a different place geographically, but I think it faces the s...
MITCHELL REISS

So the president set out the policy guidance and said it had to take place in a multilateral fashion...
MITCHELL REISS

So, in a sense, the verification piece is irrelevant to the format issue.
MITCHELL REISS

God,' he said, 'I have to have you.'
'Take me. Own me. Use me. Pick a verb. Just please.'
...
C.D. REISS

Fashion is all about madness.
REISS FIELD

...Tomorrow I'm going to destroy you. I'm going to mark your body and ruin your mind. By noon, you w...
C.D. REISS

Jonathan Drazen," I said, squeezing his hand. "You're a manipulative bastard, a brazen liar, and a s...
C.D. REISS

Everyone I have spoken with so far recognises the need for the IRA to respond positively and every h...
MITCHELL REISS

Sometimes I feel like I’m a stranger here. In my own hometown. It’s always been that way. Then I...
C.D. REISS

Let's see how it goes.
JAY REISS

I heard they were carding people at the box office,
JAY REISS

During rehearsals, I would occasionally cross the line a bit and use some material that was pretty f...
JAY REISS

Her sexuality wasn't coy or cute. She wasn't saucy; she was feral. Her very presence on the earth st...
C.D. REISS

My phone buzzed in the center console again.
"What's happening with this thing?" Dad grabbed it...
C.D. REISS

And so there has been a lot of diplomatic movement.
MITCHELL REISS

I'm not sure you can do anything quickly or easily with the North.
MITCHELL REISS

Every bargain we made was chewed over carefully before it was swallowed. Each one seemed like the be...
ALTER S. REISS

Both destiny and free will exist simultaneously. You are destined to be given some opportunities but...
TOM TOM

During times of hardship people find happiness in simplest pleasures
TOM TOM

Am I good enough?
Trust.
TOM

Really, coaching is simplicity. It's getting players to play better than they think that they ca...
TOM LANDRY

There's this misconception that the Navy is this cruise ship, and you get to go out and sail aro...
TOM HANKS

Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes.
TOM CRUISE

Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.
TOM CRUISE

Have you ever gotten the feeling that you aren't completely embarassed yet, but you glimpse tomo...
TOM CRUISE

When I first started out all the attention could be a bit unnerving, especially when people stared. ...
TOM CRUISE

I've spent many birthdays on a movie set, all great days.
TOM CRUISE

I've always had the same values. Family for me has always been important. When I shoot, everybod...
TOM CRUISE

When I'm promoting a film, I'm not going to get caught up in anything else, and that include...
TOM CRUISE

Whether it's making a film or raising my children, personally I'm striving to do the right t...
TOM CRUISE

I like to work with people that I like hanging out with, that I admire, that are really smart and ta...
TOM CRUISE

If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian ...
TOM CRUISE

Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people.
TOM CRUISE

What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture,...
TOM CRUISE

I'm always around my mother and sisters. I always wanted to be a father, a husband.
TOM CRUISE

As a young actor, people were trying to define who I was before I really knew that for myself. But I...
TOM CRUISE

The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell yo...
TOM CRUISE

The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you sur...
TOM CRUISE

I've never made a film that I didn't believe in, you know? However the picture turns out, I&...
TOM CRUISE

I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot o...
TOM CRUISE

I've never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn'...
TOM CRUISE

Do I make mistakes? Yeah.
TOM CRUISE

I've learned to relax more. Everybody feels pressure in what they do, maybe mine is just a littl...
TOM CRUISE

I go without sleep, I just go hard.
TOM CRUISE

When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to...
TOM CRUISE

Football is unconditional love.
TOM BRADY

My favorite meal has always been fried chicken.
TOM WATSON

The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.
TOM HIDDLESTON

Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions.
KIANA TOM

Good things, when short, are twice as good.
TOM STOPPARD

Time is short, life is short, there's a lot to know. So I skip the entertainers in the newspaper...
TOM STOPPARD

The thing that happens remarkably often is that the people who are writing a dissertation believe th...
TOM STOPPARD

I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them.
TOM STOPPARD

My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.
TOM STOPPARD

The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it's no longer the abstract ideal version; ...
TOM STOPPARD

I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones...
TOM STOPPARD

Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.
TOM STOPPARD

Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.
TOM STOPPARD

All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. An...
TOM STOPPARD

Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.
TOM STOPPARD

The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with t...
TOM STOPPARD

For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clea...
TOM STOPPARD

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
TOM STOPPARD

Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork.
TOM CONTI

I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quart...
TOM CRUISE

Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibil...
TOM BRADY

Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it all...
TOM BRADY

Every man should know, if you're comfortable and you like it, you should do it. Everyone always ...
TOM BRADY

The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.
TOM BRADY

I'm never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.
TOM BRADY

So many guys are so conservative with their hair, and I always joke with all my buddies when they me...
TOM BRADY

If I have something to say, I want it to be meaningful.
TOM BRADY

My job is to play quarterback, and I'm going to do that the best way I know how, because I owe t...
TOM BRADY

There's not much time to unwind, but you know what, it's because I love what I do. I look fo...
TOM BRADY

I think the great part about what I do is that there's a scoreboard. At the end of every week, y...
TOM BRADY

I don't think any country is perfect. It's our responsibility to do the best we can do to ch...
TOM BRADY

You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help th...
TOM BRADY

The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.
TOM BRADY

When you're one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.
TOM BRADY

I was the kid that was the 199th pick that never had the body for it. People didn't think I'...
TOM BRADY

Geometric shapes hold an energy pattern, and scientists did some experiments which say certain geome...
TOM DELONGE

I just love working hard. I love being part of a team; I love working toward a common goal.
TOM BRADY

What the United States needs to do at this point is reaffirm our commitment that Assad must go and t...
TOM COTTON

So rather than face the bitter truth, China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlis...
TOM LANTOS

I think these movies are definitely comedies. It's quite difficult to take a superhero movie ser...
TOM HOLLAND

Every chef has his treats. By that, I mean bits and pieces from things you're working on - crust...
TOM DOUGLAS

I've gotten very good at scheduling my life, scheduling the scene and preparing myself for knowi...
TOM CRUISE

I grew up watching 'Superman.' As a child, when I first learned to dive into a swimming pool...
TOM HIDDLESTON

Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Ever...
TOM WAITS

Catfish has a nice firm texture and mild flavor.
TOM DOUGLAS

You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, eac...
TOM RIDGE

America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness a...
TOM HARKIN

My wife and I decided to try and kick start our kitchens to a $15 minimum wage for cooks. I've p...
TOM DOUGLAS

I think we're very uptight in America. You have to remember that we're descended from Purita...
TOM FORD

Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema...
TOM HANKS

I have a weakness for watches. I have to stop myself buying more.
TOM JONES

We are set to make very bad history.
TOM WILSON

These days an income is something you can't live without - or within.
TOM WILSON

If I had a nickel for every time I said 'Why me?' I'd have probably said 'Why me?...
TOM WILSON

What this country needs is a credit card for charging things to experience.
TOM WILSON

The waist is a terrible thing to mind.
TOM WILSON

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
TOM WILSON

If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've l...
TOM WILSON

Many of us are more capable than some of us... but none of us is as capable as all of us!
TOM WILSON

Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.
TOM WILSON

There's no future in spending our present worrying about our past.
TOM WILSON

Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow.
TOM WILSON

About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.
TOM WILSON

If I ever had an out-of-body experience - I'd try to come back to a different one.
TOM WILSON

I wouldn't mind the rat race - if the rats would lose once in a while.
TOM WILSON

Mondays are the potholes in the road of life.
TOM WILSON

A smile is a facelift that's in everyone's price range!
TOM WILSON

Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.
TOM WOLFE

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
TOM STOPPARD

Miami is a melting pot in which none of the stones melt. They rattle around.
TOM WOLFE

Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of disease...
TOM ALLEN

Some people are cowards... I think by and large a third of people are villains, a third are cowards,...
TOM HANKS

Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. B...
TOM STOPPARD

Everybody who is anyone wanted to meet a real life gangster, and here's Joey Gallo hitting the s...
TOM FOLSOM

The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
TOM LANDRY

From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can lite...
TOM STOPPARD

No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned w...
TOM WATSON

Golf is a game of ego, but it is also a game of integrity: the most important thing is you do what i...
TOM WATSON

Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick invo...
TOM PETTY

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term w...
TOM STOPPARD

Be prepared, and be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you.
TOM LEHRER

I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.
TOM HANKS

Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk.
TOM WAITS

A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.
TOM STOPPARD

I have spoken to Donald Trump about this. He understands the dramatic budget cuts our military has f...
TOM COTTON

When I was 20, in 1957, and maybe you would say I was old enough to know better, but nevertheless, I...
TOM STOPPARD

We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
TOM STOPPARD

The notion that the 'leader' has the right to ask huge sacrifices of your generation for a n...
TOM STOPPARD

The dominant male is history. Could you see a male Lady Gaga? The closest we've got is Justin Bi...
TOM ODELL

After the first day of practice, there's not one guy who's playing at 100 percent or who fee...
TOM BRADY

There were no mail-order catalogues in 1492. Marco Polo's journal was the wish book of Renaissance E...
TOM ROBBINS

I was bullied every day at school because I carried a briefcase. I could have left it at home. But I...
TOM FORD

When I was a reporter in Bristol, which I was between the years 1954 and 1960, the newspaper would g...
TOM STOPPARD

In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student pro...
TOM STOPPARD

In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic ...
TOM VILSACK

My mother is looking forward to it even more than me! I'll be showing her the bright lights of N...
TOM FELTON

Tom Snyder was born to broadcast. He loved television and it loved him back. In that, he was a membe...
TOM SHALES

The most satisfying accomplishment for me was winning the British Open in 1996. But the most rewardi...
TOM LEHMAN

Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.
TOM STOPPARD

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
TOM BROKAW

If you have kids, it is the most important thing to create good times.
TOM CRUISE

I'm an all-or-nothing kind of person, and when I become interested in something, I give it my al...
TOM CRUISE

I love kids. I was a kid myself, once.
TOM CRUISE

I look at the Samurai because they were the artists of their time. What I think struck me when I rea...
TOM CRUISE

Awards are wonderful. I've been nominated many times and I've won many awards. But my journe...
TOM CRUISE

Here's how I've lived my life: I've never been late to a set. I make films I believe in....
TOM CRUISE

This is the positive way of seeing the modern Jewish dilemma: I am from everywhere. The negative way is no matter where you go, you find out that you're a victim, that you're unwanted and don't belong.

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This is the positive way of seeing the modern Jewish dilemma: I am from everywhere. The negative way is no matter where you go, you find out that you're a victim, that you're unwanted and don't belong.

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