Hannah Szenes Quotes
Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame Blessed is the flame that burns in the secret fastness of the heart...
Quotes to Explore
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Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
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I'm a big lipstick girl - I'm old school that way.
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Sexual harassment at work... is it a problem for the self-employed?
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What is really important for a woman, you know, even more than being beautiful or intelligent, is to be entertaining.
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He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone.
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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
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I love traveling. I've been doing it since I was 16.
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Of course I have had a boyfriend. However, I was way too busy while taking care of myself, and I could not show a better care for my boyfriend. I found myself getting more and more egocentric, and I was not a good girlfriend at all.
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You know, people understand fear and opportunity. It may look different, but it's really the same thing.
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
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You cannot easily fit women into a structure that is already coded as male; you have to change the structure.
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My mother was incredibly strict, especially when we moved to New York. Compared with most of the American parents, who seemed so relaxed with their children, my mother was virtually a dictator.
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The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give Romney an extra point for voter disillusionment with Obama, and a half-point for being better financed than his predecessors. It still strikes me as a path to narrow defeat.
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I wanted to make a redemptive thriller that didn't end with some kind of big, crazy shootout and blood spill, but more of a collision of ideas and a discussion of ethics.
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'Big Love' was originally an ensemble song, but it's done now as a single guitar piece.
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I really love writing comedy. Writing romantic comedy is even nicer because you get to write about how insane we all act when we're falling in love.
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That contagion idea is so relevant and shows how quickly civilization could self-destruct.
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I've worked so hard to eliminate the inner geek from my life. I suddenly realize I have no patience for those people who still have their geeks showing. Now I see why being 'normal' has been so important to me.
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The novelist in me is probably hiding behind all the stories I write, looking for ways to connect them and continue the conversation with readers. Maybe I'm writing one long narrative, and each book, however different from the last, is just a chapter.
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The fellows that I played with encouraged me to bunt and beat the ball out. I was anxious to make good and did as I was told. When I came to Brooklyn, I adopted an altogether different style of hitting. I stood flat-footed at the plate and slugged. That was my natural style.
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One thing bothered me as a student. In the 1960s, human behavior was totally off limits for the biologist. There was animal behavior, then there was a long time nothing, after which came human behavior as a totally separate category best left to a different group of scientists.
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One of the big problems in this field is that there's so much mystification that surrounds talk of the Shari'a, whether its saying that Islam is all about peace or whether its people saying that Islam is all about Jihad and all about suicide bombs. People will make statements which don't seem to be backed up by any sort of historical context.
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The repercussions of the coup on nascent democracies in the Arab world will be destructive. People may soon lose faith in the democratic process, paving the way for the revival of extremist groups...The coup serves to strengthen the radicals, interrupting the course of peaceful change.
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Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame Blessed is the flame that burns in the secret fastness of the heart...
