Ehud Olmert Quotes
We cannot continue to control areas of the territories where most of the Palestinians live.
Quotes to Explore
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.
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There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
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I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
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I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn't shape who I am or anything like that. I'm actually a product of my mom.
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In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
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The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.
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I've had many incidents in my life of racism. I've been thrown on the ground. I've been frisked. I've been arrested so many times I couldn't tell you. I have no need to talk about it.
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It's no surprise that I ended up in sportscasting. I lived this world with my father, Mike Storen. Dad was a sports executive for most of my childhood.
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I've forgotten what it's like to remember. I've lost the mindless confidence that a moment, an idea, a thought will be there for me later, the bravado of breezing through experience in the certainty that it will become part of my self, part of my story.
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When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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I have my guy Semi who is my on the road - he's my personal trainer. He helps me out with training and stuff like that, and he's shown me a lot of things I can do on the road. We were trying to figure out something that I can do everywhere, like in my hotel room, so I don't have to have a gym.
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Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
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When I was in college, I majored in comparative religion because I really wanted to figure out if there was God and how I should live my life.
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It is the thing that is most remote from the world in which we ourselves live that attracts us most. We are under the spell of what is distant from us. It is not our nature to desire passionately what is near at hand.
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It is not fun singing about losing somebody like that, but at the same time it was easy to write because the memories were so real and vivid and so much a part of who I am.
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We cannot continue to control areas of the territories where most of the Palestinians live.
