Yehuda Amichai Quotes
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It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.
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Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
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I was raised to believe that New England is the best place on the planet.
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I miss Colombia. It's a great place.
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Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
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I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.
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I'm in a loft and the kitchen is in the very center of the apartment. The whole place revolves around it.
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Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!
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The Polish freedom movement of 1968 lost its confrontation with police violence; the Prague Spring was crushed by the armies of five Warsaw Pact members. But in both countries, 1968 gave birth to a new political consciousness.
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Mixing in some rusty oranges is a warm way to update your place for fall.
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And TV is not the easiest place to be dangerous or on the edge. Especially on a Saturday night.
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When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.
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Shops are not a growing business, so it's a scary place to be.
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I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place.
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Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.
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No matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.
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For those of us imprisoned in Poland, the Prague Spring was a harbinger of hope.
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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
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Flowers are happy things.
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The good thing is that I'm always honest.
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Looking back - I did have a lot of success and a lot of great opportunities earlier in my career.
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And hell, sometimes the best thing is to put on a black dress and become a wicked stepmother. There’s power in that, if you’re after power.
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The worst kind of lying I've ever done is keeping things from people.
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From the place where we are right, flowers will not grow in the spring.
