Yehuda Amichai Quotes
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If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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I told the Mucinex people, 'You picked me because I always sound sick'. They were like, 'Well, it doesn't hurt'.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.
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I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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I think the sidekick makes the number one look good.
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Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?
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Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world.
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Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
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I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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The Lakers are family. My kids don't have to switch schools. Little things like that are important. People don't think about things like that. I feel like something special is going to happen in this town.
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I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
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You know, life fractures all of us into little pieces. It harms us, but it’s how we glue those fractures back together that makes us stronger.
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We need to write books that publicists and marketers and booksellers and book club leaders and librarians and readers can get excited about. That have something about them that makes them stand out. That makes them shine.
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It was not an adventure; it was my life.
