Yehuda Amichai Quotes
Tonight I think again of many days that are sacrificed for one night of love. Of the waste and the fruit of the waste, of plenty and of fire. And how painlessly-time.
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I think that one of the primary roles of an attorney, and certainly we try to teach it here to our students, is that you counsel compliance with the law. The lawyer, more than simply being a mouthpiece for the client and advocating at whatever cost the client's interest, is also an officer of the court in questions that appear before the court.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.
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I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.
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I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Discipline is not a nasty word.
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I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
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Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
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Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.
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Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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Seasonal flu is now a pandemic that lasts for years and years because you've got so many people that it's jumping back between northern and southern hemispheres and moving itself around the world. By the time it gets back to where it started, it's changed sufficiently so that people are no longer immune.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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Everything and anything is valuable.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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My mother was keen that I complete my graduation and never ever wanted me to be in the movies, as my father had made five films that lost money. One of the films he made was 'Agneepath,' which was hugely hyped but underwhelming at the box office, and I remember that my dad had to sell my grandmother's flat to pay off the loan.
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My favourite things are jokes, friendliness and feeling comfortable.
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I guess John Lennon had it right: give peace a chance.
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I do think that we are an overmedicated society.
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I was always kind of a loudmouth and a class clown, and that kind of led to doing all the school plays and trying out all kinds of different stuff.
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I've been a storyteller all my life. When I was in high school, I used to amuse myself by driving through the woods at night and see how long it would be before I scared the pants off my friends - and if I could do it before I scared myself.
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Tonight I think again of many days that are sacrificed for one night of love. Of the waste and the fruit of the waste, of plenty and of fire. And how painlessly-time.
