Anita Lasker-Wallfisch Quotes
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To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.
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I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
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You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.
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I don't think I've ever not had a dark side. But one of the wonderful reasons why you go into this business is that half your life you live in a fantasy, which is somebody else's life. It's actually a great release because you're not having to deal with the itty-bitty bits of life.
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We, the women of the Senate, with President Obama by our side, will keep fighting - our shoulders square, our lipstick on - because you deserve equal pay for your hard work.
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I was playing in the league when Ray Guy was playing in the league. He was the best kicker I've ever seen. He could bullet that ball 70 yards.
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I want to level the playing field for people who want to purchase health insurance as individuals, and that means eliminating the exemption for employer-sponsored health care.
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My humble prayer is that all men everywhere may understand more fully the significance of the atonement of the Savior of all mankind, who has given us the plan of salvation which will lead us into eternal life, where God and Christ dwell.
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And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.
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I am called an Islamic fundamentalist by Rushdie. My critics in Pakistan say I am a Zionist agent. I must be doing something right.
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It makes sense that whatever the topic is, it's more compelling if you can provide the audience with a range of perspectives, and you can cross disciplines. And you don't have to control what people take out of it.
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I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'
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The conscience of the dying belies their life.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea.
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Everything in life is relative.
