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

  

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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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• I assume that - because you can get degrees in journalism from very reputable universities - I assume that people can be trained to be journalists. I've never been entirely certain that anyone can be trained to be a novelist in the same way.

  

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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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• The toy business began to drive the [Lucasfilm] empire. It’s a shame. They make three times as much on toys as they do on films. It’s natural to make decisions that protect the toy business, but that’s not the best thing for making quality films.

  

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• This is life. It is everywhere, and it is here for the taking. I am alive and I know this, now, in a more profound way than when I am doing anything else. These sights are ephemeral, fleeting treasures that have been offered to me and to me alone. No other person in the history of the world, anywhere in all of time and space, has been granted this gift to be here in my place. And I am privileged, through the camera, to take this moment away with me. That is why I photograph.

  

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• I sit beside my lonely fire And pray for wisdom yet: For calmness to remember Or courage to forget.

  

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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.

  

  Amira Hass
  • Journalist
  • Jew
  • Privileges