Ephraim Mirvis Quotes
Holocaust denial, once the preserve of fringe conspiracy theorists, has mutated into Holocaust obfuscation, equivocation, and specious comparison on a larger scale than ever.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'd always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about in my dressing room is that one day I would do it.
-
I don't consider myself a celebrity and I don't consider myself a star.
-
On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost.
-
I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
-
Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them.
-
If you do something, expect consequences.
-
It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
-
I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.
-
I like to look strong and commanding.
-
Ratings have changed, viewer habits have changed and the options for the audience have grown enormously, but I don't think how you tell a story is fundamentally different.
-
Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously.
-
The reason I was in most of the movies I've done is that they paid for me to be in the theater.
-
'Don Quixote' is a very political book that has been used by diplomats, politicians, guerrilla fighters, to inspire people, to convince them that they themselves can become quixotic. George Washington had a copy of the book on his desk when signing the U.S. Constitution.
-
It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.
-
A novelist has more talent for written than oral assignments.
-
The supposition is prevalent the world over that there would be no problems in production or service if only our production workers would do their jobs in the way that they were taught. Pleasant dreams. The workers are handicapped by the system, and the system belongs to the management.
-
The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.
-
As quoted in Ted Talk 'The child-driven education' by Sugata Mitra (2012)
-
The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy.
-
Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.
-
The Germans take quite a knock for the holocaust, but the Catholic church manages to push more people into death, disease, and degradation every year than the holocaust managed in its entire show. And it's thought rather crass to even mention the fact. It seems to me that as long as these Catholic bishops can show their face in public that we are in complicity with mass murder.
-
I love hiking in the hills not far from my house. I'm invested in my hikes. Sometimes kids go up there and spray-paint over the signs; I've found a biodegradable paint cleaner, and I'll scrub the signs so they're nice and clean.
-
Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'
-
Holocaust denial, once the preserve of fringe conspiracy theorists, has mutated into Holocaust obfuscation, equivocation, and specious comparison on a larger scale than ever.
