Yehuda Amichai Quotes
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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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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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It's where you come from that's the strange, exotic, quirky, mad place.
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A hospital is no place to be sick.
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From the streets of Cairo and the Arab Spring, to Occupy Wall Street, from the busy political calendar to the aftermath of the tsunami in Japan, social media was not only sharing the news but driving it.
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A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear.
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I found that quiet place in my home that is my place of refuge. I don't care if you got kids or if you are married. You got to find that one place that is your everybody-off-limit place: unless this place is on fire, or you need to go to the emergency room, don't disturb me. You can go to this place and cleanse, meditate, let God speak to you.
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You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.
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I really expected Twitter to be a scary place, for people to say horrible things, but I've had just the opposite experience.
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From the place where we are right, flowers will not grow in the spring.
