Alex Shoumatoff Quotes
There is a lot of interest among the descendants of Holocaust victims in getting back artworks that were looted by the Nazis, for getting at least some form of compensation and closure for the horrors visited upon their families.
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Whenever I am losing, it's like, 'It's his fault'. And whenever I'm winning it's like, 'That's us'. That's the team, the people.
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I feel there is a big sense of accomplishment and achievement and self worth through what you do no matter what the job, no matter what you decide to dedicate your life to.
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They can't pooh-pooh me now, because of who I am.
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No one has ever raised capital because their pitch deck was pretty. A lot of people have raised capital because they were over-prepared, knew where their business was going, and were able to articulate that through a pitch alongside a pitch deck.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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Anything that looks good makes you feel better.
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Look at Michelle Pfeiffer: My God, she's 50 years old, but she is still so sexy. If I were into women, I would be totally into her.
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We gave the world dab fever!
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I was determined to create my own identity. My first hits, in fact, were straight-up rhythm and blues. My voice was compared to Aretha Franklin's - though, for my money, no one compares to Aretha.
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I hate television, but that's me. It's like sucking your thumb. It's a wonderful thing for keeping the masses enslaved.
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I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York.
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Who wouldn't want to be Frank Sinatra's son?
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Obviously after such a long gap, one itches to get back to the game and score big runs.
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A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that.
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I am heartily glad to witness your veneration for a Book which to say nothing of its holiness or authority, contains more specimens of genius and taste than any other volume in existence.
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The newspaper is in all its literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct.
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This is the last time I'm asking you this,Put my name at the top of your lips.This is the last time I'm asking you whyYou break my heart in the blink of an eye, eye, eye.
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I'm so grateful this day has ended well.
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The 'Heirs of Alexandria' series mixes the Renaissance with magic and demons, based on a changed theological history.
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My family reached the United States before the Holocaust. Both of my parents emigrated from Russia as young children. My grandparents were fleeing religious persecution and came to America seeking a better life for their family.
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From its earliest days in the nineteenth century, and until the Holocaust, the Orthodox rabbinate in eastern Europe was not enthusiastic about the Zionist movement, which at the time was led by irreligious Jews.
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A family is too frail a vessel to contain the risks of all the warring impulses expressed when such a group meets on common ground.
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We did some cool wire work in 'The Pact' - they had me strapped to a harness underneath my shirt so they could fling me around the house and slam me into doors. I definitely got some bruises even with all the padding!
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There is a lot of interest among the descendants of Holocaust victims in getting back artworks that were looted by the Nazis, for getting at least some form of compensation and closure for the horrors visited upon their families.
