Alice Herz-Sommer Quotes
Complaining doesn't change people... All that complain, this is terrible... It's not so terrible.
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
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I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks.
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I want to do movies but not talk about them.
Nastassja Kinski -
I'm very excited to have a girl.
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Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
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And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.
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To produce foie gras, ducks and geese are force-fed enormous amounts of grain and fat, which causes their livers to swell to many times the normal size.
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Two hundred channel choices in most homes certainly gives you the world of choice. And so slicing it, dicing it, and offering someone their favorite thing - by the way, if it's not good enough, make it yourself and post it.
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Whites, like ourselves, belong to our country. They are compatriots, fellow citizens... we see them as Africans.
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I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less sure about what is good. There's sort of good, good enough, could be better - but absolute good is a little harder to define.
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I love tuning into Radio 1 on a Friday night after training and hearing the new stuff.
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You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.
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I never wanted fame.
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Every time Paul and Gene use my makeup, they have to pay me a royalty check. I think they changed the makeup so they didn't have to pay me.
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The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could.
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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard -it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.
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I have my diehard R&B fans on one side of the spectrum and my diehard pop and dance fans on the other side of the spectrum.
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When it comes to whaling, Iceland is an international outlaw. Years of global negotiations and declarations have failed utterly to end its illegal slaughter of whales. It's time to send Iceland a message it can't ignore: trade sanctions.
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Complaining doesn't change people... All that complain, this is terrible... It's not so terrible.
