Nathalie Handal Quotes
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such an excellent banjo player that you almost don't wish you had a pair of wire cutters.
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One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech.
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I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.
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It's nice not to have to live a double life.
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You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today.
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Humans can make friends easily if they are open to it and are interested in other people.
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I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, 'If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.'
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Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their hanging-gardens, villas, garden-houses, islands, parks, and preserves.
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Once you start playing a piece, there is a connection between every note. You cannot say, 'I will not concentrate on this note.' You cannot ignore things the way you do in the rest of your life.
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My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.
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I started as an engineer. I migrated to philosophy and international politics. And I did my studies about African – Africa democracy and democratization in Africa, taking Kenya as a model. And then, while I was doing so in 1996 in South Africa, Al Jazeera was established. So they requested me to be an analyst on African affairs.
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The other seeming oddity of its role as a national symbol is that it has achieved this status for Indians in spite of it being Islamic.
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To be understood is to prostitute yourself.
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Melancholy and remorse form the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality; we run aground sooner than the flat-bottomed pleasure-lovers but we venture out in weather that would sink them and we choose our direction.
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We always say, ‘Gisele’s so hot, how do we break her down?'
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The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
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From Plato: the man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all time and of all substance, dost thou suppose it possible for him to think that human life is anything great? It is not possible, he said. Such a man then will think that death also is no evil.
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The reason people talk about cable cutting is they imagine the price burden will get so high that people won't be able to pay it. They're missing something: that the actual price of the electronic package is going down. They've got their Internet, phone, TV, all of it. Now people are using more and more stuff for less.
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Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
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Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?
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Unless you choose to do great things with your life it makes no difference how much money you make or how much power you have.
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Sholeh Wolpé poetry proves to be rumination, prayer, song.