Amira Hass Quotes

As a Jew and a journalist I have my privileges, and if one doesn't work I use the other one.

Amira Hass

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• I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me.

  

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• Your body is a temple, whether you're a Jew or not.

  

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• There won't remain a single Jew that we will need to defend beyond the fence.

  

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• I was a journalist and wrote about filmmakers, but I didn't review movies per se.

  

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• It doesn't mean that you endorse it. It doesn't mean you're being insensitive. It means you're a journalist and you're telling the story.

  

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• [On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.

  

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• I was told that [Japan journalists] wanted to see my dog, Yume. You can see that she is in great shape.

  

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• Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations.

  

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• Was there any form of filth or crime without at least one Jew involved in it? If you cut into such a sore, you find, like a maggot in a rotting body, often dazzled by the sudden light, a Jew.

  

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• The journalist should be on his guard against publishing what is false in taste or exceptionable in morals.

  

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• The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people's one.

  

  Charles Dickens
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• The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.

  

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• If I had to baptise a Jew, I would take him to the bridge of the Elbe, hang a stone around his neck and push him over with the words 'I baptise thee in the name of Abraham'.

  

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• All journalists hope that their work will inspire a broader conversation. I think that's just what journalism is.

  

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• Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.

  

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• Gently, I ran my hand across his chest, exploring it. My breath felt tight in my throat. He was so beautiful. His muscles were toned, defined, his skin warm and smooth. Stroking my palm up over the line of his collarbone, I felt the firmness of his shoulder, the strength of his bicep. I traced my fingers over the black AK, following the lines of the letters. Alex hardly moved as I touched him, his eyes never leaving me. Finally I sighed and dropped my hand. I tried to smile. "I've sort of been wanting to do that ever since that first night in the motel room," I admitted.

  

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• I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it.

  

  William Hogarth
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• Be available for life to happen.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Life
  • Happen
  • Available

• As a Jew and a journalist I have my privileges, and if one doesn't work I use the other one.

  

  Amira Hass
  • Journalist
  • Jew
  • Privileges