Carol Matas Quotes
We are alive. We are human, with good and bad in us. That's all we know for sure. We can't create a new species or a new world. That's been done. Now we have to live within those boundaries . What are our choices? We can despair and curse, and change nothing. We can choose evil like our enemies have done and create a world based on hate. Or we can try to make things better.
Quotes to Explore
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I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.
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It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
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When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
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I wouldn't mind working with Outkast. I'm a big fan of them.
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After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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Wearing too much makeup definitely makes my skin worse.
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My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture.
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Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
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You can no longer just have a magazine that shows you this glossy impervious image of women - in the studio, artificial, wearing a push-up bra.
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At the start of my career, when I used to toss and turn at night, I was fighting that feeling and wanting to go to sleep. Now I know that's normal, so I'll just get up and watch TV or something. I know it's just my subconscious mind getting ready for a game.
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If a big number of young pupils felt secularism was an attack on them, it was because the term had been misused and deformed in the public debate for years by the extreme-right and the right as an attack on Islam. The term had often been misused to point out how Muslims were different to others, and that is clearly problematic.
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Not everything can be solved quickly.
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Rolf Ekeus, his appearance can deceive. He looks somewhere between an international diplomat and a mad professor. He's got that sort of shock of white hair and a slightly absent-minded way of speaking. But he's extremely sharp and very serious about power relationships.
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I'm a ladies' man who can never make love. I'm resigned to that.
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The human mind cannot go beyond the gift of God, the Holy Ghost. To suppose that art can go beyond the finest specimens of art that are now in the world is not knowing what art is; it is being blind to the gifts of the spirit.
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In my 20s I was such a serious, boring-looking person. I would never do my nails. I never even danced. But I was taught by the women. They had gone through hell, but they would dance and sing. I came to realise I can't argue for a happy world if I am not happy myself.
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The rank of office is not what makes someone a leader. Leadership is the choice to serve others with or without any formal rank.
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At the beginning of the week, when we do our game planning, we look at the opponent and all the unique things they do.
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We are alive. We are human, with good and bad in us. That's all we know for sure. We can't create a new species or a new world. That's been done. Now we have to live within those boundaries . What are our choices? We can despair and curse, and change nothing. We can choose evil like our enemies have done and create a world based on hate. Or we can try to make things better.
