Alice Herz-Sommer Quotes

I've always been an optimist and I believe laughter is a wonderful thing

Alice Herz-Sommer

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• The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.

  

  Larry David
  • American
  • Food
  • Lunch

• It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Up
  • Good
  • Morning

• Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren't so good.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • Good
  • High
  • Used

• Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Happy
  • Growing
  • Be Happy

• Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Music
  • Job
  • Dad

• I remember teaching a clinic to other coaches, and a guy raised his hand and asked if I had any advice when it came to coaching women. I leveled him with a death-ray stare, and said, 'Go home and coach basketball.'

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Women
  • Home
  • Remember

• The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Space
  • Friend
  • Moon

• We have sectors of the economy, aerospace is a good example, where Britain's probably the second country in the world, the automobile sector, where we've done extraordinarily well, an enormous amount of investment over the last couple of years, life sciences is another.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • Good
  • Give
  • Ourselves

• By the mid-1990s, nearly everything in North Korea was worn out, broken, malfunctioning. The country had seen better days.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Country
  • Better
  • Broken

• Time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think.'

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • May

• In Stage I, divorces were not allowed, so men's sexual affairs did not put women's economic security in jeopardy; in Stage II, affairs could lead to divorce, so men's affairs did place women's economic security in jeopardy. We did not want political leaders who would be role models for behavior that would put women's economic security in jeopardy.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Political

• The most peaceable tribes of today were often ravagers of yesteryear and will probably again produce soldiers and murderers in the future.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Future
  • Today

• We were so busy that we didn't have time to think about how terrible it was or - in fact it felt strangely natural.

  

  Margrethe II of Denmark
  • Time

• The first time we meet another person an insidious little voice in our head says, 'I might wear eyeglasses or be chunky around the hips or a girl, but at least I'm not Gay or Black or a Jew.' Meaning: I may be me - but at least I have the good sense not to be YOU.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • Time
  • Good
  • May

• I am not religious in the dogmatic sense … I neither believe nor disbelieve in anything.

  

  Charlie Chaplin
  • Believe
  • Religious

• There are people with an explicit political bent complaining about people having political agendas while nominating stories with political agendas. Is it political to try to be diverse? Is it political to try to imagine a non-heteronormative society? Yes, because it involves politics. But how do they expect us to not write about our lives?

  

  Alaya Dawn Johnson
  • People
  • Society
  • Political

• Everyone has their own path and you can't judge.

  

  Jake Owen
  • Path
  • Judge

• It's not exactly under the radar, but when I'm in London, I love to visit Liberty. It's my favorite department store, and they have a room entirely dedicated to chocolate and truffles.

  

  Ashley Madekwe
  • Chocolate

• Reality TV is a lot about drama, but for the first time in a long time, you actually have role models on TV.

  

  Nikki Bella
  • Drama
  • Role Model
  • Reality TV

• Laughter is America's most important export.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Important
  • America
  • Laughter

• The object of a comedy is not to correct morals or ridicule the vices of society; no, a comedy should depict the discrepancies between life and purpose, should be the fruit of bitter indignation aroused by the degradation of human dignity, should be sarcasm, and not an epigram, convulsive laughter and not an amused grin, should be written with bile and not diluted salt, in a word, it should embrace life in its highest significance.

  

  Vissarion Belinsky
  • Comedy
  • Purpose
  • Laughter

• I've always been an optimist and I believe laughter is a wonderful thing

  

  Alice Herz-Sommer
  • Laughter
  • Optimist