Edith Hahn Beer Quotes

You must remind me: “Edith! Speak up! Tell the story.” It has been more than half a century. I suppose it is time.

Edith Hahn Beer

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• Speak Up

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• CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they're covered, the kinds of people in terms of guests who are brought on air, the way in which issues are discussed.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • People
  • You
  • Air

• Great leaders have a heart for people. They take time for people. They view people as the bottom line, not as a tool to get to the bottom line.

  

  Pat Williams
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • School
  • America

• Whatever its flaws, the United Nations is still the only institution that brings together all the countries of the world. And it is the best forum for the United States to spur countries to act - and to hold them accountable when they don't.

  

  Samantha Power
  • World
  • Together
  • Best

• I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Believe
  • Creative
  • Trouble

• I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Important
  • Thoughts
  • Thought

• What came up at age 49 is I realized that of all the things I'm interested in, the thing I'm most interested in is figuring out what makes people tick, why people think the way they do, why they act the way they do. And I realized that music is such a great way to investigate why people do what they do.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Reading
  • Beach

• The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Poetry
  • Special
  • Japanese

• Cricket is my life. Before the cancer, I was happy-go-lucky. I used to think about my career and worry about the future. But post it, my thinking has completely changed. I'm happy to eat and breathe normally. I'm happy to have my life back.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Happy

• I already am a product.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Product
  • Am

• Commercial hit films such as 'Bajrangi Bhaijaan,' 'Talaash,' and 'Kick' had big superstars to sell them; that may not have been the case if it were just me.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Me
  • Case
  • Commercial

• Hollywood always represents this big dream and fairy tale in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work. Of course, we play fairy tale on the red carpet. It's all Cinderella. But when the clock strikes midnight, I turn into a gray mouse and I go home, and I take my dress off and it's over. That's Hollywood.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Work
  • Home

• Once an entitlement program has been created with millions of beneficiaries, it becomes almost impossible to repeal.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Impossible
  • Program
  • Been

• In my time, I experienced a black man not being able to be the quarterback of a football team.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Time
  • Man
  • Black

• I'm not against gay people.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • People
  • Gay
  • Against

• The world is changing quickly and we must be ready to change with it or risk being left behind.

  

  Najib Razak
  • World
  • Change
  • Risk

• Lunchtime and recess, that was a big part for me growing up. I think it's important for kids to have that.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Important
  • Kids
  • I Think

• It kind of just typifies our whole year, having to scratch and claw through it all. It's not always easy. We were playing the number five or six team in the country and we knew it was going to be tough, so I'm proud of the way our guys did compete.

  

  Bob Stoops
  • Team
  • Proud
  • Compete

• I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • You

• I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Time
  • Knowledge
  • Funny

• Overhead, the two moons worked together to bathe the world in a strange light.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Light
  • Moons
  • Bathe

• As a nation, Kuwait has been, arguably, free of freedom itself. Claimed in turn by Constantinople, Riyadh, and Baghdad, Kuwait has survived by playing Turks off Persians, Arabs off one another, and the English off everyone.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • English

• You must remind me: “Edith! Speak up! Tell the story.” It has been more than half a century. I suppose it is time.

  

  Edith Hahn Beer
  • Story
  • Suppose
  • Speak Up