Simon Wiesenthal Quotes

Freedom is not a gift of heaven, you have to fight for it every day.

Simon Wiesenthal

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• I have to tell you, I'm proudest of my life off the court. There will always be great basketball players who bounce that little round ball, but my proudest moments are affecting people's lives, effecting change, being a role model in the community.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Light
  • Passion
  • Blind

• When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Job
  • Black
  • Know

• When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Myself
  • Hair
  • Look

• I had an amazing childhood.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Amazing
  • Childhood
  • Had

• I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Movie
  • Building
  • Looking

• You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.

  

  Ilya Ehrenburg
  • Earth
  • Green
  • Grass

• Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Never
  • Will
  • Two

• Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Government
  • Care
  • Percent

• My dream is to stand in front of 60,000 people in an arena and know that everyone came because they wanted to make memories with me.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • People
  • Dream
  • Know

• We may not know the whole story in our lifetime.

  

  Earl Warren
  • May
  • Know
  • Story

• I left school at 16 and my mother got me a job as a trainee wine taster. But one day I followed some girls into St Martin's art school and saw a voluptuous woman sitting on a stool being sketched. I decided to get myself fired.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • School
  • Art
  • Job

• I'm about caring, I'm about people, and I'm about entertaining people. I'm a family man. A husband. A father. I've been a lot of other things over the years, which we don't really want to talk about.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • People
  • Family
  • Father

• Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.

  

  Vijay Singh
  • Knowledge
  • Best
  • Player

• India didn’t play particularly well, but if you ask me I would say my best memory is we beat eventual winners Pakistan in a league match. It’s not a positive memory for me, but to say we beat the team which held the trophy makes me feel better.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Team
  • Positive

• There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you. I am glad of that. In fact, I am relieved.

  

  Isaac Asimov

• A responsive administration is tested most at the point of interface between the administration and the people.

  

  Rajiv Gandhi
  • People

• 387. I believe it might interest a philosopher, one who can think himself, to read my notes. For even if I have hit the mark only rarely, he would recognize what targets I had been ceaselessly aiming at.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Believe

• Why does the world need a Piano Day? For many reasons. But mostly, because it doesn't hurt to celebrate the piano and everything around it: performers, composers, piano builders, tuners, movers and most important, the listener.

  

  Nils Frahm
  • Piano
  • Performers
  • Listener

• Beyond any question, the way the American founders consistently linked faith and freedom, republicanism and religion, was not only deliberate and thoughtful, it was also surprising and anything but routine.

  

  Os Guinness
  • American
  • Freedom
  • Faith

• I got this Christmas gift with the entire Beatles catalog. I had fun trying to duplicate what I was hearing on these records, only using the instruments I had at hand - an acoustic guitar, and that's all. It was endlessly amusing to me to try to imitate John Lennon and Paul McCartney's harmonies using the guitar.

  

  M. Ward
  • Trying
  • Fun
  • Hand

• No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Freedom

• If they wish to fight today, let them come like men.

  

  Bohemond I of Antioch
  • Men
  • Wish
  • Fight

• Freedom is not a gift of heaven, you have to fight for it every day.

  

  Simon Wiesenthal
  • Freedom
  • Fight
  • Gift