Tzipi Livni Quotes
Some say let's not give them too much power. But we need power to do the things we believe in and change Israeli politics. In coalition talks, we don't want to have to compromise on what we believe in.
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Broadway is really my life.
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When I was little, one of my father's friends owned a circus. For four absolutely incredible summers, I found myself being the only boy in Ireland who didn't dream of running away with the circus. I was in it!
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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I'm past my wooing days now. See, I am an honest person. If I like a girl, I will go and tell her.
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I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.
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If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.
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Terrorism should be seen in the light of the country's security and not from the narrow perspective of caste, creed and religion.
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I remember people saying: 'You look funny, your hair is so black, you have a flat nose,' but I didn't think of it being racism, and I still don't. But there was a sense of difference, of being an outsider.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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I've learned never say never.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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I think comics are really part of The Zeitgeist. They reflect back to us the issues that we're concerned about in the time they are written.
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A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
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We were all so different, temperamentally from one another, it's impossible to believe that we were together for so long. The cast and crew. How could we be more different from one another? It's difficult to imagine. But something lovely came of it.
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I like playing characters that are complex, that are intriguing, that come from left field, that do things that are unexpected. I don't like people who just follow one line and that's it - that's why I could never be in a sitcom, I don't think. They're not intriguing enough for me.
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And all shall be well and/ All manner of thing shall be well/ By the purification of the motive/ In the ground of our beseeching
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I've always said I don't believe in God, I believe in Al Pacino.
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I personally view as very important such ideas as people’s aspiration for perfection and unification, since only a peaceful competition forms the noble basis for the Olympic movement. This is as relevant as ever in the modern world, which opens unlimited opportunities for people, but at the same time is being torn by conflicts, contradictions and standoffs. However, I am an optimist and I strongly believe in the bright future of the international Olympic movement.
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I shift between mediums very frequently. Instead of taking a break from writing, I just write in a different medium or in a different way or for a different purpose, so that I don't actually stop writing - I just go to something else. Like going from a big symphony to a piano piece is great and very refreshing, I find. And then going from that to a big concerto, and then having to go out and play.
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Some say let's not give them too much power. But we need power to do the things we believe in and change Israeli politics. In coalition talks, we don't want to have to compromise on what we believe in.
