Amira Hass Quotes
As a Jew and a journalist I have my privileges, and if one doesn't work I use the other one.
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I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
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To be a Jew is a destiny.
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For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.
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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.
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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.
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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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There are philosophical issues involved in that about choosing the right discount rate, the value, the future, and things like that which drive it. But its start with the premise that global warming is real and if you're a denier of that fact, then you're not going to find climate change mitigation policies to have particular appeal.
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How do you establish online friends by talking about the weather?
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Photography concentrates one's eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play of light and shade. One can't catch that even with the sharpest lens.
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The ways in which theological constructs pose questions about what it is to be a human being on this earth are deeply elegant and deeply interesting to me. I may not always agree with the answers religion offers, but I take great interest in the questions it poses.
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As a Jew and a journalist I have my privileges, and if one doesn't work I use the other one.
