Alice Herz-Sommer Quotes
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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.
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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
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Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
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Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren't so good.
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Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.
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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.
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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.'
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I'm a typical California boy.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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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.
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I was on paper earning more money and having more success than I'd ever had. And it was also the most miserable I've ever been. When those things collided, I realised something was off. That's when I started poking around to figure out what was wrong.
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All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.
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By the mid-1990s, nearly everything in North Korea was worn out, broken, malfunctioning. The country had seen better days.
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Time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think.'
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Every commodity is compelled to chose some other commodity for its equivalent.
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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.
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The most peaceable tribes of today were often ravagers of yesteryear and will probably again produce soldiers and murderers in the future.
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We were so busy that we didn't have time to think about how terrible it was or - in fact it felt strangely natural.
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To have noughtIs to have all things without care or thought!
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For the most part, I was surprised by the representation of female characters onscreen. I do hope that when we include more female storytellers, we will have more of the women that I recognize in my day to day life.
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I am passionate about acting. 'Girls in our family are not allowed to act' is quite an outdated thought to have. They did it till my mother, but now no more.
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It is not so much the case that God has a mission for his church in the world, as that God has a church for his mission in the world. Mission was not made for the church; the church was made for mission - God’s mission.
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I've always been an optimist and I believe laughter is a wonderful thing
