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 want to do movies but not talk about them.
Nastassja Kinski -
I'm very excited to have a girl.
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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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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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When I started Teach For America, I wasn't trying to come up with an idea that would change the world. I was trying to solve a problem much closer to home: I was a senior in college, and I had no idea what I was going to do with my life!
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Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality.
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If you look back over the history of computing, it started as mainframes or terminals. As PCs or work stations became prevalent, computing moved to the edge, and we had applications that took advantage of edge computing and the CPU and processing power at the edge. Cloud computing brought things back to the center.
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Sometimes, people end up thankful for what they mourned. You cannot achieve this state by seeking tragedy, but you can keep yourself open more to sorrow's richness than to unmediated despair. Tragedies with happy endings may be sentimental tripe, or they may be the true meaning of love.
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We are never complacent. My job is to make us look 10 years out and be prepared.
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The first show I ever worked on was The Killing, which was a whodunit crime show.
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Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.
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Complaining doesn't change people... All that complain, this is terrible... It's not so terrible.
