Abba Kovner Quotes
I wanted to be born at the farthest limit of the world. I'll explore it, I said to myself, biting big chunks from it. And when I want, I'll go straight to the core. This is the way of the world I thought in my innocence, round and around the layers of peel until the taste becomes certain.Abba Kovner
Quotes to Explore
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
Nas -
I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.
Vanessa Paradis -
I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
Adam Hasner -
I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.
Maggie Rowe -
Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
Paavo Nurmi -
Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
Gaspard Ulliel
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I've heard things said on football pitches that players clearly don't mean, whether it's racism or just an abusive comment in the heat of the moment.
Gary Lineker -
I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi -
I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
Ma Jian -
My family is full of musicians, and a couple of times a year we get together and jam at my cousin's studio. We improvise and have a great time.
Gabriel Macht -
I support strong sanctions and other penalties against those who aid violent extremists, brutalize their own people and have time and time again rejected calls to behave as responsible nations.
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen -
The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.
Jack Kilby
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Just listen to all this sweet, sweet music. I'm working the music.
R. Kelly -
The power of emotions as drivers of behaviour, especially when survival is perceived as being at stake, needs to be recognised and taken into account at all levels of society and governance.
Nayef Al-Rodhan -
The most important person is the one you are with in this moment.
Leo Tolstoy -
An education is meaningless unless it equips students to have a better life.
Clarence Thomas -
...teeth set out by a landscape gardener...
Addison Mizner -
Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let's hope so.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Every year, some 65,000 high school students - many of them star students and leaders in their communities - are unable to go to college or get a good job because they have no legal status.
Gary Locke -
Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn't happen. If that's the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.
James Mattis -
Wherever you go - in every country, or in every continent, people yearn and hunger for only one thing, to love and be loved. Love transcends international boundaries and heals the wounds of hatred, racial, prejudice, bigotry and ignorance. It is the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.
Michael Jackson -
I wanted to be born at the farthest limit of the world. I'll explore it, I said to myself, biting big chunks from it. And when I want, I'll go straight to the core. This is the way of the world I thought in my innocence, round and around the layers of peel until the taste becomes certain.
Abba Kovner