Benjamin B. Ferencz Quotes
War makes murderers out of otherwise decent people. All wars, and all decent people.
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I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.
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Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
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A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.
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A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
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No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure.
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I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world.
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
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A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
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On radio, you're in your own little world. Every time I'd be doing a possible no-hitter - I think I've done something like 25 no-hitters and a couple of perfect games - I would always put the date on the tape. Not for me, but for the player, so that 25 or 30 years later when he's playing it for his kids or grandkids, you have that date.
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You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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I'm the only gay person my parents know.
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I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth.
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We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all effort and the vanity of all plans.
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I feel like I'm stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter a studio; it's always had a certain magic to me that has never worn off with familiarity.
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You know what I'd really like to do the most right now? Climb up to the top of some high place like the pyramids. The highest place I can find. Where you can see forever. Stand on the very top, look all around the world, see all the scenery, and see with my own eyes what's been lost from the world.
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I'm sorry - you know, culture is elitist. Culture has to be elitist: it's about seeing and knowing and about knowledge.
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Most people think of a feel as when you touch something or someone and what it feels like to your fingers but, a feel can have a thousand different definitions. Sometimes feel is a mental thing. Sometimes feel can happen clear ‘cross the arena. Sort of an invitation from the horse to come to you.
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War makes murderers out of otherwise decent people. All wars, and all decent people.
