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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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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I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew.
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I'm looking for a balance of reported and essayistic work by up-and-coming women journalists. Often that means combing online-only sources or alt weeklies.
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Not raising the debt ceiling does not trigger a default, because we've got enough money to service our debts. Default is when you can't service your debt.
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Each person's body type is different, and they need to understand that food should be eaten in regular portions.
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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.
