Esther Hautzig Quotes
What I ate for breakfast on school mornings was one buttered roll--a soft roll, not a hard roll--and one cup of cocoa; any attempt to alter this menu I regarded as a plot to poison me.
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I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me.
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The nature and the DNA of IMAX has been redefined in the past years to shoot these huge blockbusters. But I think that it's not the sole purpose of IMAX to capture cars exploding in your face.
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Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
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I don't have to go to the weight room. I don't have to go work out if I don't want to.
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For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.
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Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.
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I had maybe heard 'The Times Are A-Changing' on the radio, but I had no idea who Dylan was. No idea.
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My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.
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You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap.
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I don't have goals in life.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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Love stories thrive on hope.
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I get to go to all these beautiful places, so it's nice being able to take pictures of it.
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My mum didn't really let me watch TV until I was about 5 years old.
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It's a dream come true for me to be an idol for those kids. One little moment from my life that I spend with that kid, he might remember that for the rest of his life, that he met me that day when he was 10 years old.
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Mean is easy. Mean is lazy. Mean is self-satisfied and slothful.
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We all see that, today, man can destroy the foundation of his existence: his Earth.
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I'm always proud to be in something that's good.
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Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight.
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I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.
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There are wonderful things happening all around the world. From Nova Scotia to Kerala, Bristol to Melbourne, and even in the Philippines, zero waste is on the agenda. I think what's particularly inspiring is when communities don't wait to be told what to do but just go ahead and do it.
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We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!
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It's okay to make mistakes as long as you learn from them.
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What I ate for breakfast on school mornings was one buttered roll--a soft roll, not a hard roll--and one cup of cocoa; any attempt to alter this menu I regarded as a plot to poison me.
