Ehud Olmert Quotes
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I'd love to see more middle and high school teachers who are not teaching English develop classroom libraries. Our message to kids should be that reading is for everyone.
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I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.
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The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.
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I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.
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I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.
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You go from thinking of yourself as primarily an individual to suddenly being a mother, first and foremost.
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Turning 18 is a big deal.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.
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For more than a quarter of a century on active duty, my house has been my tent, and my home the battlefield.
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Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
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A secret is powerful when it is empty.
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Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
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No state can match the beauty of the Chesapeake Bay, our beaches and farms, or the mountains of Western Maryland, the Port of Baltimore, or the historic charm of every corner of our state.
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If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.
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A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.
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A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
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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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If you want to take care of tomorrow, take better care of today. We always live now. All we have to do is entrust ourselves to the life we now live.
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Yet even the rich have their own kind of suffering, anxiety, doubt, and fear. So in many cases, wealthy people aren't happy! And once those with material wealth encounter small difficulties, their amount of mental suffering is sometimes bigger than it is for those who have faced such difficulties every day.
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I had a very active imagination as a kid, and I was constantly performing, whether I was making money doing it or not, whether it was on a stage in front of 1,000 people or in the living room in front of my family.
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An interlude of false innocence has passed. Today, as we enter the post-photographic era, we must face once again the ineradicable fragility of our ontological distinctions between the imaginary and the real, and the tragic elusiveness of the Cartesian dream. We have indeed learnt to fix the shadows, but not to secure their meanings or to stabilize their truth values; they still flicker on the walls of Plato's cave.
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There are quite a lot of people asking for a painting so I'm not able to fulfil all their wishes. And this gives me a lot of freedom, because if I cannot please them at all I don't have to start to try.
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My doctors say I am very healthy.
