Meir Kahane Quotes
We have our own values; we build our own special, our JEWISH life - and we are proud, so very proud.
Quotes to Explore
-
I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
-
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
-
In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
-
It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
-
I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
-
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
-
In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
-
I think I've always been somebody to break rules.
-
There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.
-
In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
-
Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
-
I take a lot of pictures.
-
The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.
-
There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
-
I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, 'Oh my God, you're awesome,' and then we start dating.
-
You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
-
When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.
-
The commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' does not say it's O.K. to kill some people and not others.
-
You can't believe everything you read in a newspaper or everything that's coming out of the president's mouth. And you can't believe when someone posts a picture from their personal life, because most of the time, it's staged - we're showing each other these idealized versions of ourselves so that we seem better and other people will feel worse.
-
It's that iconic imagery of that sea of raised fists during a live performance. It's a symbol of unity and strength and at the same time there are elements of defiance and rebellion that are inherent in that raised fist symbol. It's just one of those iconic pieces of imagery from the life of rock 'n' roll.
-
Humility is the armour that you clothe yourself with throughout your life. We demean each other rather than lift up ourselves.
-
Happiness, sadness, loss and gain all pass away. What they do to us is what remains.
-
We have our own values; we build our own special, our JEWISH life - and we are proud, so very proud.
