Abba Eban Quotes
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Quotes to Explore
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I know politics and politicians are hated, but I still believe in goodness of a heart that has selfless intentions. With the grace of God, I will make a difference.
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We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.
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Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
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Understanding the importance of evolving is very important. Reinventing is very important. To break what you have already done is very important. That growth should never stop.
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
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I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
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Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.
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I like being in love, but loving is what is crucial to me. Loving is the reason to live.
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I love action movies.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now.
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My imagination is a twisted place.
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
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I've become more and more comfortable with occasionally dressing sexier, but I still hope to express a 'cool' type of sensuality.
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Oh, how strenuous is life! I know a little of it. Men "ought always to pray, and not to faint." How fierce the battle! I know something of the conflict, but I ought not to faint, because I can pray.
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Once an entitlement program has been created with millions of beneficiaries, it becomes almost impossible to repeal.
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People prefer doing films. That is not the case with me. I don't do theatre because I have to but because it makes me feel alive. I enjoy the whole process of rehearsing, though repetition can make it tedious.
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It is the thing that is most remote from the world in which we ourselves live that attracts us most. We are under the spell of what is distant from us. It is not our nature to desire passionately what is near at hand.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
