Yehuda Amichai Quotes
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I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
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What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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My dad is afraid of my laugh.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.
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Laquan McDonald is a wake-up call to all of us. It's a reminder there's a lot broken.
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GIS is waking up the world to the power of geography, this science of integration, and has the framework for creating a better future.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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I love fashion and there is no easier way to express yourself than through the clothes you wear.
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Becoming Catholic involves entering into a relationship with the Catholic Church.
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For me, the idea of curating can be expanded. Curating science, curating art, music and theater and performance and not only bring those things into art but bring art into those areas.
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The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.
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I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
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I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.
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The recognition of rights for women and minorities became a large part of my understanding of what this country is all about.
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With Submarine, when I came out of school, people were so lovely and supportive. And you don't get that experience very often. It felt like a family on-set. So Submarine changed so much for me.
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If you hand a man a lemon and tell him that its sourness lies outside the lemon, he will think you are joking. Yet, with a perfectly straight face, that same man will tell you that his sour life is caused by external events. When will man learn that he is the cause of his own feelings for either happiness or anxiety?
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That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.
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There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
