Abebech Gobena Quotes
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When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.
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It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
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I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.
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That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.
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I don't think you will meet anyone in Israel who will ever burn the American flag.
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I had a restaurant in Georgia for a while, and I really miss feeding everybody.
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I went through my entire athletic life as a basketball player with only minimal physical setbacks, the worst being a couple of brain concussions, one in a college game in 1948, the other in 1954 while playing in the Eastern League, from which I recovered without permanent damage.
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Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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I guess I'm curious about how people process grief and how they process loss. And I'm also interested in the ways in which an event can have long-reaching consequences and a life over the course of years.
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What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.
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Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.
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I have always wanted to be liked and respected.
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I like old Disney films that have an edge to them.
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Commercials capture your attention, that's all.
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I've sung background for a couple of bands.
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There's no such thing as a specific authenticity to what Mexico is, because Mexico is incredibly complex and varied, and the food is completely different if you travel 50 kilometers. It just changes all the time.
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People would tell us, 'I love your company, but I want to go to Chicago or Boston or New York.'
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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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No one ever knows if a book is good until they read the book.
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Country music is some of the best-written music in the world, so yeah, one day, I would keep my mind open to doing a country record.
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I want every Israeli child, secular and religious, to know about Moses, about Maimonides, about Yoni Netanyahu, about Hannah Senesh and S. Y. Agnon. I want every child to know how to read the Bible, and know how to make Kiddush.
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One of the hardest things to teach a child is that the truth is more important than the consequences.
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I never put a price on a child.
