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've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.
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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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I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.
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When Landon Carter, a Virginia plantation owner, read the Declaration of Independence two days after it was issued, he wondered whether its ringing affirmation of equality meant that slaves must be freed. If so, he confided to his diary, 'You must send them out of the country, or they must steal for their support.'
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When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57 languages. But I am focused on Istanbul not because of Istanbul but because of humanity. Everyone is the same in the end.
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I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.
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I think in the wake of the domination of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, everyone is now looking for a grand plan.
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I like to wake up late, around 11 A.M., especially if I have been out the night before. Then I go to brunch with either my friends or my girlfriend. I then like to just chill out: read the papers, read some scripts and then take it very easy. If it's sunny, I go for a walk with my dog, Niles, in the countryside.
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War makes murderers out of otherwise decent people. All wars, and all decent people.
