I. L. Peretz Quotes
A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.
Quotes to Explore
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What was once underground is now coming to the surface.
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Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
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Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
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An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
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Remember this: classics never make a comeback. They wait for that perfect moment to take the spotlight from overdone, tired trends.
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I'm not a babysitter.
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I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
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Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.
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I would say Hope Solo is competitive.
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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When you make a movie, you really have to be clever and smart, find something new for the worldwide audience because you aren't making a movie for just France or Germany; it's for everyone in the world.
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They do not want people committing violence, either in their community or in the name of their faith, and so some of our most productive relationships are with people who see things and tell us things who happen to be Muslim.
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My hope is that, in years to come, people will still be watching 'The Clone Wars,' and they'll still hold up. That's my goal - time tested.
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People - I always have energy for people.
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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Think back to the early rock n' roll records, and the average record length in the '50s - and well into the '60s - was two and a half minutes. It's very hard to put that much songwriting into two and a half minutes.
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A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.
