Yehuda Amichai Quotes
Knowledge of peace passes from country to country, like children's games, which are so much alike, everywhere.Yehuda Amichai
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I can sing 'Happy Birthday' to you in twelve different places, but one of them is going to make you feel a certain thing, maybe it's a vulnerability, maybe an innocence, maybe another way is sexy and soulful or bluesy whatever it is, but with singers, exploring keys, I think, is important.
Idina Menzel -
California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
Ed Begley, Jr. -
When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
Ma Jian -
Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.
Lake Bell -
I'm from working-class, blue-collar America, and I don't believe that people in that socioeconomic strata wait until they're 40 to have children.
Frances McDormand -
Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.
Gary Hamel
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You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next.
Rachael Leigh Cook -
I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes.
Jack Ma -
I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
Laura Linney -
Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?
Kara Swisher -
The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.
Carine Roitfeld -
Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
Sam Wyly
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I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.
M. J. Hyland -
I was with the CIA for only three years. I worked in the Directorate of Operations, which is now called the National Clandestine Service. It's the part of the organization where the spies live. I didn't have much experience beyond the training.
Barry Eisler -
I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
Laura Mvula -
Traveling is one of my great passions and something I do a lot of.
Sabrina Lloyd -
The difference between our family and other poor families was that my mother actively chose to be poor. She was highly literate, and she had a college degree, but after my father left, she took the first secretarial job she could find and never looked for other employment again.
Said Sayrafiezadeh -
I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.
Harold Brodkey
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When thousands of men and women work full time but need food stamps to put food on their tables, when they can't get health benefits, when they can't get paid sick days, then we must do whatever we can to stand up for them.
Charles B. Rangel -
If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.
Alex Kapranos Franz Ferdinand -
The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
Wadah Khanfar -
We didn't have a whole lot of cash growing up. My mom was a single parent for a while before my stepdad came into the picture.
Chris Young -
Knowledge of peace passes from country to country, like children's games, which are so much alike, everywhere.
Yehuda Amichai