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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In economics, one of the most important concepts is 'opportunity cost' - the idea that once you spend your money on something, you can't spend it again on something else.
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2015 was really the hardest and the best year of my life. I learned a lot. I went through a lot of personal heartbreak, loss, and turmoil. I had to find my way out of sinking under the weight of it and it was the hardest thing I had to do.
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I think that Ryu Chishu, or Tanaka Kinuyo, or to be more precise, the imaginary characters they portrayed, were more real to the film buffs than any existing human being. This is why cinephiles are spookier, on the whole, than music lovers or balletomanes. For they are creatures of the dark, getting off on the lives of others.
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One of the consistent characteristics of the tech industry is an endless labelling of technology and approaches.
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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.