Simon Wiesenthal Quotes
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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.
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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.
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I just wanted to give them the 'Lost Jewelry' so they can say, 'Yo, they get that's mean.' And then when I tell 'em, 'Yo, that ain't even the meal. Get ready for the meal!' That's when we 'bout to go crazy because the taste of the appetizer.
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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.
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When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
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I had an amazing childhood.
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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.
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You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
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Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
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Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.
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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.
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We may not know the whole story in our lifetime.
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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.
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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.
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Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.
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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.
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There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you. I am glad of that. In fact, I am relieved.
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A responsive administration is tested most at the point of interface between the administration and the people.
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For me, 'The Social Network' isn't about Facebook. It certainly isn't about how people use it. It's about a flawed character and his pursuit of that grand idea that defines him and validates his life and how far he'll go to get it, and the repercussions that come as a result of that - what he gives up in the process.
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I definitely want to get more active in the film world. My experiences I've had thus far have been really fun, and I definitely feel my best is yet to come in that world.
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We don't realize that we face a frustrating situation in which we win every battle, but we lose the war.
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I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.
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Freedom is not a gift of heaven, you have to fight for it every day.
