Edith Hahn Beer Quotes
They wanted to know, you see. They were afraid that with our typical Austrian faces, we might be able to pass. They didn’t want to be fooled. Even then, in the 1920s, they wanted to be able to tell who was a Jew.
Quotes to Explore
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I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I'm not afraid of my flaws.
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In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.
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Both sides of the aisle - Republican and Democrat - have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone's got to.
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I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.
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I definitely have my opinions that I'm very vocal about and I'm not afraid to put them out there.
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To be a Jew is a destiny.
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It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.
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I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing.
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To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.
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Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
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I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.
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I'm afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria.
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I love a good cliffhanger. I love when big events happen in shows. I love shows that aren't afraid to take risks and to really do what's best for the story line and realistic for the story line.
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I am afraid of privilege, of ease, of entitlement.
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I'm not afraid of problem-solving. There is always a way.
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Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
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Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me.
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Sometimes when you sing someone else's song over and over again or songs that have been given to you, you're afraid to go out there and write one yourself.
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I'm afraid I just lost it, I was completely ambushed by the giggles.
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The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force.
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Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.
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They wanted to know, you see. They were afraid that with our typical Austrian faces, we might be able to pass. They didn’t want to be fooled. Even then, in the 1920s, they wanted to be able to tell who was a Jew.
