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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In war, men lose what makes them great. Their creativity. Their wisdom. Their joy. All that's left is their utility. War is not monstrous for making corpses of men so much as it is for making machines of them. And woe to those who have no use in war except to feed the machines.
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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass.
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Attack politics costs us dearly in terms of insight into the candidates. In a presidential campaign, the focus is so tight that the politicians are afraid to say anything that hasn't been scripted.
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I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.
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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.
