Eva Mozes Kor Quotes
Because we were twins, we clung to each other. Because we were sisters, we depended on each other. Because we were family, we did not let go.
Quotes to Explore
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The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.
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Acting is in your soul.
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Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
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A lot of times, you think you want something, and then you find something completely different.
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I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
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Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions.
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Some taxpayers may object to a print journalism bailout on the grounds that it mostly benefits the liberal elite. And we can't blame taxpayers for being reluctant to subsidize the reportorial careers of J-school twerps who should have joined the Peace Corps and gone to Africa to 'speak truth to power' to Robert Mugabe.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools.
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I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
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A lot of the problems in the mortgage world, people said, were because our competitors were evil. But a lot of it was a lack of technology - bad processes and systems.
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And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.
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Isn't that the definition of a star? Someone who can get a film made?
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Sometimes people give away more by not saying something.
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I come from a working-class family. They're the people I know and the people I love, I guess. I do not write about them for political reasons, but because, as I see it, most interesting things - social, political, emotional - take place there. It's a bottomless well for an author like me.
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Sometimes when something really works well, it becomes a target, forty years for me, I've been a part, and I've loved every minute of it. My family has done so well with it. It's been a beautiful thing for me. I've saved lives with it and saved my own life several times. Through my loss of my son, it helped me every step of the way for two years solid, and here I am.
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Because we were twins, we clung to each other. Because we were sisters, we depended on each other. Because we were family, we did not let go.
