Anita Diamant Quotes
Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
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Internal security implies also an external dimension, a defence capacity.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien.
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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
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I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.
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If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?
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The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.
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You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into a race when the time was right.
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When I was 17 years old, Frank DiLeo saw my very first music video and flew to my hometown of Las Vegas to meet with my family and me. Frank told my dad, 'I am coming out of retirement to manage one last big act: Manika.'
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AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap.
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The best revolutions are unplanned, and the most democratic are leaderless.
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For complicated historical and political reasons, we associate 'poor' in our public consciousness with 'black.' Terms such as 'welfare queen' and 'culture of poverty' became associated uniquely with the social maladies of African Americans in urban ghettos, despite the fact that poor whites outnumbered poor blacks.
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I think every single girl has something different and special about her. You find one who clicks with your vibe.
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My dad signed me up for some acting classes at a place in Honolulu, and there I got to audition for some L.A.-based talent agents. I got a few 'callbacks' and so my mom and I decided to fly to California and check it out!
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What is poetry which does not save nations or people?
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The attack of John Brown upon Harper's Ferry came upon Virginia like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky.
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There's competition at every phase of your life. The day we start thinking about it, you lose your peace of mind. I don't compete with anyone.
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Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
