Edith Hahn Beer Quotes
When Frieda, Trude, Lucy, and I walked to work, the German children hooted at us: “Jewish swine!” In town, the shopkeepers would not even sell us a beer. I wrote to Mama that Osterburg was a friendly town.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.
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Leading from behind doesn't work.
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I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
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Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition. I'll let everyone else worry about championships. I'm going to worry about qualifying at Pomona.
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Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.
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I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.
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Once you break someone of the habit of up-talking, they can start to see immediate improvement in their careers.
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Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.
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I'd love to do well on a big weekend with people watching and cheering, of course. But it's not fair to create an expectation level before I know what is realistic. I want to finish as well as possible. Is that top 20? Top 15? Top 25? You just have to play it by ear.
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My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.
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With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
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All my life, I heard, 'Stop daydreaming,' 'Get over yourself,' 'You'll never get there,' 'Aim lower,' 'You'll hurt yourself,' from teachers, family, and friends.
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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
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I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.
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I hid the fact that I had an aneurysm for a very long time. I was embarrassed, and I just felt like no one needed to know because it made me look weak. Who would of thought someone my age, at 23, had a brain aneurysm?
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But can I tell the genuine-article Italian from the poseur Italian? No. To me they all seem like poseurs.
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A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
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I always pack lots of loose linen shirts and denim cut offs, Converse, vintage Reformation sun dresses, gold jewellery, and statement shades. Plus a trunk full of swimwear, of course.
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That was the challenge. How can you tell the story here and make sure it goes the same way on the other side of the world?
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'Lord of the Rings' was a childhood favorite, though the adult Rae wishes the women in those books had more significance and agency.
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I decided to leave most of my wealth to my charitable foundation, which is not to be confused with my charity. My charity helps children directly. The charitable foundation will receive most of my legacy when I die.
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When Frieda, Trude, Lucy, and I walked to work, the German children hooted at us: “Jewish swine!” In town, the shopkeepers would not even sell us a beer. I wrote to Mama that Osterburg was a friendly town.
