Ofra Haza Quotes
I understand them. I understand where they came from, what their lifestyle was there. But my parents didn't push us to be like them. They said do whatever you think right, but remember the important things in life.
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.
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We live in a world now where everything is tweeted and Instagrammed and tagged and now, God help us, Vined. Calling out grievances over Twitter has become an industry norm.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.
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I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law.
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I am a just man.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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Many of my constituents are in their 80s, 90s, even 100, and our focus is ensuring that their needs can be provided for.
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I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. And she is an awesome mom. When you are Latina, it is all about family, and to see that she prioritizes family and her career at the same time is really nice.
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Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.
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I have a lot of amazing women, you know, women in my life who have been an example for me of what not to do.
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I took the longest showers of my life after every time I visited Gramacho. It affects the personality of the catadores. They always dress really well, they're very sharp, and when they go out they always wear a lot of perfume because they're very conscious of the possibility of having the smell.
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It is true that the Muslim world is not totally mistaken when it reproaches the West of Christian tradition of moral decadence and the manipulation of human life. … Islam has also had moments of great splendor and decadence in the course of its history.
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I understand them. I understand where they came from, what their lifestyle was there. But my parents didn't push us to be like them. They said do whatever you think right, but remember the important things in life.
