Hajo Meyer Quotes
My great lesson from Auschwitz is: whoever wants to dehumanize any other must first be dehumanized himself.
Quotes to Explore
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.
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One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.
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Blogs are quite a new development - now, everyone wants to know you, everyone wants to know everything about you. And you can build a following that way. In a way, it's a good thing if you want to create a buzz around yourself.
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RFK was a compelling figure because he was willing to challenge his audiences, and in turn connect with them in a unique way. Kennedy showed that our values define us and can inspire others to believe in the possibility of change and a better society.
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We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important than party politics.
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Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California.
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It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.
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Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.
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In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
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Americans must outgrow the unbecoming arrogance that leads us to assert that America somehow owns a monopoly on goodness and truth - a belief that leads some to view the world as but a stage on which to play out the great historical drama: the United States of America versus the Powers of Evil.
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There's so many things that I've gone through that I want to share because there's other teenagers that are going through the same things or will go through the same things.
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Leonardo DiCaprio is a rare phenomenon. Whereas for so many celebrities an interest in the environment is a fashionable accessory, for DiCaprio it is a thread that runs through everything he does.
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You need to be really great at your job. You need a strong network of peers, and you need a strong network of mentors.
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My great lesson from Auschwitz is: whoever wants to dehumanize any other must first be dehumanized himself.
