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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There is nothing more American than raising your voice in protest, and there is nothing more un-American than a government that attempts to hit the mute button when it doesn't like what it hears.
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Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
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I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.
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So my doctor told me to watch what I'm eating - to read food labels. I'm in the store reading the Fig Newtons label: I've always liked Fig Newtons. I'm reading the label to make sure everything's fine: fat content. I looked at the serving size; two cookies. Who eats two cookies? I eat Fig Newtons by the sleeve: two sleeves is a serving size. I open them both and eat them like a tree chipper; Fig Newton shavings coming off the side.
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My doctors say I am very healthy.
