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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It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, or even full-time work, and actually have a better standard of living, and that's the direction in which we are going.
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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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We would here state that there are now three things necessary to be done in order to save China from revolution. The first is to maintain the reigning Dynasty; the second is to conserve the Holy Religion; and the third is to protect the Chinese race.
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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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I wanted all my life to give my world into other arts - books, plays, movies - but I didn't want to sell out.
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To those of us who have seen all of Eric Rohmer's films, it is impossible not to remember when, where, with whom we saw each one. I even remember the second and third time I saw his films.
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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.
