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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I still have in me the same awareness when I was 12 and chubby and a girl was spitting in my face. I'm the same person.
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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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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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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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I couldn't vote to confirm any candidate who supports executive amnesty. The attorney general is a top law enforcement officer in this country - the senior person - and anyone who occupies that office must have fidelity to the laws of the United States duly passed, and to the Constitution of the United States.
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I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.
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I can really laugh at myself and make a fool out of myself.
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I guess if I'd had any sense, I'd have been a little scared [to register to vote] - but what was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do was kill me, and it kinda seemed like they'd been trying to do that a little bit at a time since I could remember.
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Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.
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There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
