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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Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality.
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The men at the factory are old and cunning
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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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Men are such power-seeking creatures, and they usually kill people to get to the throne.
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The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.
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There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor. . . .In the prison you are not forced to sit listening to turnkeys discoursing without charm or interest on subjects that they don't understand and don't care about, and therefore incapable of making you understand or care about. In a prison they may torture your body; but they do not torture your brains.
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Complaining doesn't change people... All that complain, this is terrible... It's not so terrible.
