Alice Herz-Sommer Quotes

Complaining doesn't change people... All that complain, this is terrible... It's not so terrible.

Alice Herz-Sommer

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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.

  

  Barbara G. Walker
  • Life
  • Women
  • Trying

• 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.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• 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.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Day
  • Singing
  • Cold

• Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Want
  • Stone
  • New Things

• You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Reality
  • You
  • Find

• I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • Life
  • God
  • Believe

• I want to do movies but not talk about them.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Want
  • Movies
  • Talk

• I'm very excited to have a girl.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Girl
  • Very
  • Excited

• 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.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Political
  • Education

• 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.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Size
  • Fat
  • Ducks

• 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.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • World
  • Good
  • Choices

• 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.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • People
  • Good
  • Evil

• I love tuning into Radio 1 on a Friday night after training and hearing the new stuff.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Love
  • Night
  • Training

• You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • You
  • Evil
  • Meant To Be

• I never wanted fame.

  

  Jack Dunphy
  • Never
  • Wanted
  • Fame

• 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.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Time
  • Think
  • Makeup

• 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!

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • Faith
  • Equality

• Unless one believes in a superhuman reason which directs evolution, one is bound to believe in a reason inherent in humanity, a motive power transcending that of each separate people, just as the power of the organism transcends that of the organ. This reason increases in proportion as the unity of mankind becomes established.

  

  Ellen Key
  • People
  • Believe
  • Power

• I think humans have to learn a new way of dwelling on this earth. A way of living with their companions: animals, plants and fish.

  

  John Burnside
  • Earth

• Honestly, I had no idea what to do on Twitter when I started. I didn't follow it enough. Slowly, though, I started to realize what I'm okay at. Like, I'm just not particularly witty.

  

  David Grann
  • Witty

• I love to pop up at the movie theaters. I love to treat the people who are there.

  

  Kevin Hart
  • People
  • Up
  • Movie

• That's one of the good things about music. You get to do it live, where you can touch the people and interact with them.

  

  LL Cool J
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• Complaining doesn't change people... All that complain, this is terrible... It's not so terrible.

  

  Alice Herz-Sommer
  • People
  • Terrible
  • Complaining