Yehuda Amichai Quotes
I wanted to be calm, like a mound with all its cities destroyed, and tranquil, like a full cemetery.
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Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.'
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I know politics; I know the media.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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I wouldn't write about people who are living and who are close to me, because I think it's a very violent thing to do to another person. And anytime I have done it, even in the disguise of fiction, the results have been horrific.
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Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.
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To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.
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It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
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I really don't want you to think of Qatar as a hydrocarbon country alone. We know that hydrocarbons will come and go. But education will stay. It is the most important thing for us.
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The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.
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Wherever you turn, there is always something wrong with the politicians. They have everything they need to save the world, and they don't save it.
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If you have life's experiences with you, nothing can stop you from being a competent actor.
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I think Hong Kong's ballet audience is very sophisticated in the sense that they are able to find the beauty in good performances.
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The butt is not a magical place that only gay people can visit, like a leather bar or the Liberace Museum.
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My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one! It seemed not so wild a dream.
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As the era of the sword was ending, that of firearms began, in time to allow no lapse in man’s belligerent capacity.
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I learned a long time ago to be honest when I'm talking to other artists. Up-and-coming artists used to come and say something, they would have a demo reel, and I would try to tell them the truth. I don't go up and say something unless I really feel it.
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Each living creature is said to be alive and to be the same individual - as for example someone is said to be the same person from when he is a child until he comes to be an old man. And yet, if he's called the same, that's despite the fact that he's never made up from the same things, but is always being renewed, and losing what he had before, whether it's hair, or flesh, or bones, or blood, in fact the whole body.
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In back of the outward calm … a small terrified voice cries out: 'I need it. I have to have it or ...' The end of the sentence is lost in chaos. The need is so strong that an illusion is created that it must be fulfilled, or the very existence of the self is threatened.
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I wanted to be calm, like a mound with all its cities destroyed, and tranquil, like a full cemetery.
