Ami Ayalon Quotes
I am not entering politics to be another Knesset member. If I enter the political arena I want to be prime minister. Period.
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I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.
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Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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I never was a very good singer.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.
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My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.
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When you work in television, you're in the writer's room all the time.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
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You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
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When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
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Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.
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I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.
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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.
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I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people.
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Sure, things could always have been done better, but I just wish people would drop their political hammers for a few weeks, as happened in 2001, and work on the problem at hand.
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Art is activism.
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I am not entering politics to be another Knesset member. If I enter the political arena I want to be prime minister. Period.
