Edgar Hilsenrath Quotes
The Armenian genocide was also a Holocaust, but it wasn't my Holocaust.
Edgar Hilsenrath
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I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.
Xavier Niel
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Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.
Wendell Pierce
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The American school system's a little warped, so anyone can get a degree if they have a little money.
Adam DeVine
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I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.
Nancy Sinatra
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Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.
Anton Zaslavski
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An auctioneer is such a uniquely American thing. I keep thinking in my head, perhaps it's not as American as I think, but it feels so Southern. It feels so American. Like, hundreds of years of American tradition is involved in it.
Jack White
The White Stripes
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I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.
P. J. O'Rourke
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American musicians are very giving - they have the highest standard in the world - but they are also very demanding in their conditions.
Zubin Mehta
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I enjoy working with the American Cancer Society because I fully support its mission of saving lives and creating a world with less cancer and more birthdays for everyone.
Larry Fitzgerald
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A constitution, in the American sense of the word, is a written instrument by which the fundamental powers of the government are established, limited, and defined, and by which these powers are distributed among several departments, for their more safe and useful exercise, for the benefit of the body politic.
Samuel Freeman Miller
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No matter what happens, we couldn't let people say Asian-American actors can't act.
Mako
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Look - I'm an African-American. I'm black. But I'm just looking at the character and trying to find his soul, his energy. If you can wipe away the blanket of skin and flesh that people tend to see, and look inside for the essence of the soul, then that's the work I'm doing. That's the work I always do.
Forest Whitaker
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In 1900, 180-plus out of every 1,000 African-American babies died.
Peter Diamandis
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I don't like American girls. They're very conceited, you know. In Europe they're more pleasant.
Bobby Fischer
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To learn to ride a bicycle, as with the other great noble human inventions, is a hugely complex activity. Generally, it requires three things: the learner, the teacher and the bicycle, all in the same place at the same time, most often outside someplace.
Chris Raschka
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At a certain point, you have to take the rearview mirrors off the bus and focus forward, and that's what we've sought to do.
David Petraeus
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The Armenian genocide was also a Holocaust, but it wasn't my Holocaust.
Edgar Hilsenrath
