Amira Hass Quotes

I am a very conservative journalist and prefer to write about what happened, and not what will happen.

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• He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Long
  • Power
  • Courage

• I love heavy music. I keep Flume nice and melodic, so I save the angry, testosterone-fueled heavy stuff for What So Not. I think it's a good defining thing for the two projects.

  

  Flume
  • Good
  • Music
  • Projects

• Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • World
  • Gold
  • Race

• Some people change when they think they're a star or something.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • People
  • Change
  • Star

• I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • People
  • Music
  • Interior

• One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Family
  • Relationship
  • Early

• I think it takes 30 years to build a luxury brand.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Think
  • Brand
  • Luxury

• I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Life
  • Real
  • Process

• I think it's great anytime somebody can be in control of their own distribution.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Great
  • Think
  • Control

• All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Money
  • Sometimes
  • London

• A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Men
  • Idea
  • New

• 'Entity' is not about science. The process behind it may dictate the nature of the piece, but it's not like a dance about Einstein where I'm trying to convert his ideas into movement and communicate that to an audience.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • Trying
  • May
  • Nature

• I used to love to create outfits, and I still do - I just don't have the time. How can you wear one thing and never wear it again? Even my wedding dress - I had a dress made that I could wear again. I'm a child of the depression, so I'm very, very practical.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Time
  • Depression
  • Very

• To rebuild this country will take a long time but we have the mandate and the people support us.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I remember, when I was younger, it was such a big fantasy for me. Now that I actually have a career and have made an album, it's really surreal.

  

  Candice Glover
  • Remember
  • Career
  • Fantasy

• If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.

  

  Victor Koo
  • You
  • Like
  • Sharing

• What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Model
  • Doing
  • Year

• I say have the night and give people the awards, but why do people want to watch people win awards? What are they getting out of it? I don't quite get it. Because they have awards all the time; there's awards for butchers, the best meat served, but they don't televise it. I don't know why they do it for films or TV programs.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Time
  • Why

• Displays of force in response to mostly peaceful demonstrations can be counterproductive.

  

  Eric Holder
  • Response
  • Demonstrations
  • Counterproductive

• Cold exactitude is not art... The so-called consciousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. People like that, if they could, would work with the same minute attention on the back of their canvas.

  

  Eugene Delacroix
  • Art
  • Attention
  • Consciousness

• My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate, disastrous desire for each other - not ideal to grow up in.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• We want to hear, we long to hear, “I screwed up. I will do my best to ensure that it will not happen again.” Most of us are not impressed when a leader offers the form of Kennedy’s admission without its essence, as in Ronald Reagan’s response to the Iran-Contra scandal, which may be summarized as “I didn’t do anything wrong myself, but it happened on my watch, so, well, I guess I’ll take responsibility.” That doesn’t cut it.

  

  Carol Tavris
  • Best
  • Happen
  • Hear

• I am a very conservative journalist and prefer to write about what happened, and not what will happen.

  

  Amira Hass
  • Write
  • Happen
  • Journalist