Eytan Fox Quotes
In Israel, it always meant - and a lot of that is still true - there was only one kind of man you could be, there were no alternatives, no options. If you were from a good family, you were supposed to be a successful soldier at 18 and be strong, and prepared to protect your wife and family, or family and children, and be prepared to die for your country.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
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When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.
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Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes.
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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
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I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer. I'm a writer.
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So the lover must struggle for words.
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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
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Sometimes, how you ingest this idea of masculinity as projected onto you by the world could be the difference of life and death.
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We shifted our philosophy from being a computer mapping group that would support planners to the idea of building actual software that would be well engineered. Because at that time, our software was not well-engineered at all; it was basically built with project funding and for project work, largely by ourselves.
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Markets will rise and fall, but this is the United States of America. No matter what some agency may say, we've always been and always will be a AAA country.
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Es ist niemals ein Dokument der Kultur, ohne zugleich ein solches der Barbarei zu sein.
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I'm the only member of my family who dared to move away from Birmingham - my brothers and sister are still here, along with my mom.
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There've been a few mother-daughter movies that are somewhat realistic. But the mother-son movies are more comical than realistic: 'Throw Momma from the Train,' 'Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot.' You don't sit in the dark and go, 'Oh my God, that's my mother.'
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So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's just so damn hard to make it look like the future.
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I believe that if your primary motivation in life is to be moral, you don't become an artist.
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I do become a recluse once in a while. It's so nice to just be at home and to not have to deal with the outside world.
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One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community.
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Tradition is important when it contains moments of change, when it is not just outward form and when it also implies an idea of what goes on inside a building, of conflicts and a potential for innovation. Otherwise tradition just means being stuck in a rut.
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In Israel, it always meant - and a lot of that is still true - there was only one kind of man you could be, there were no alternatives, no options. If you were from a good family, you were supposed to be a successful soldier at 18 and be strong, and prepared to protect your wife and family, or family and children, and be prepared to die for your country.
