Amos Oz Quotes
The minute we leave south Lebanon we will have to erase the word Hezbollah from our vocabulary, because the whole idea of the State of Israel versus Hezbollah was sheer folly from the outset. It most certainly no longer will be relevant when Israel returns to her internationally recognized northern border.
Quotes to Explore
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We must strive to become good ancestors.
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If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.
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I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.
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My first Olympics was Munich in 1972. I am better now than I was then, in knowledge and experience. The age of top riders generally tends to be older than in other sports because it takes a lot of time to be consistent.
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Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs.
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I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle.
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Twenty years of votes can tell you much more about a man than twenty weeks of campaign rhetoric. Campaign talk tells people who you want them to think you are. How you vote tells people who you really are deep inside.
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Writing is like anything else - the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and the less concerned you'll be about what's going to happen to it, where it's going, what it sounds like, whether it's right.
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My father was a milkman. So, I delivered milk.
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I like celluloid, I like film, I like the way that when a movie is projected it sort of breathes a little in the gate. That's the magic of it to me.
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My dream was to become a very small blonde movie star like Ida Lupino and those other women I saw up there on the screen during the Depression.
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For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.
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Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
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If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.
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You may love football, but that doesn't mean you have any business trying to play the sport. It's the same thing with filmmaking... everybody has a great idea for a movie, but do you have the stamina to get good at your craft and deal with how heartbreaking it is?
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All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
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The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation.
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The Assad regime has lost the consent of the governed, and it is difficult to see how a replacement Alawite regime would be able to regain this consent.
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In Charn [Jadis] had taken no notice of Polly (till the very end) because Digory was the one she wanted to make use of. Now that she had Uncle Andrew, she took no notice of Digory. I expect most witches are like that. They are not interested in things or people unless they can use them; they are terribly practical.
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There's nothing quite as irksome as someone else's mess.
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Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides.
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The minute we leave south Lebanon we will have to erase the word Hezbollah from our vocabulary, because the whole idea of the State of Israel versus Hezbollah was sheer folly from the outset. It most certainly no longer will be relevant when Israel returns to her internationally recognized northern border.
