Ehud Olmert Quotes
I don't want to block every contact with the Palestinians, I think that would be a mistake, and I think that Abu Mazen has an independent status as democratically elected head of the Palestinian people, and it's important if I will talk with him.
Quotes to Explore
-
The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
-
In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.
-
I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
-
Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
-
Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
-
Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
-
I went to Japan and I lived there. I lived in Mexico for a year. I went to Europe. I lived in Canada.
-
Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
-
Dick Durbin's a worthy opponent on any debate. He's very intelligent, quick. Knows his facts and puts them forward well.
-
I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.
-
As long as my family's OK, I'll be fine.
-
Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
-
I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
-
I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
-
A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
-
It's very tempting to have a nanny and live in a gated community and have a chef - I'd love to have a few dinners cooked for me. But I don't want that for my children. When they're older, if people say to them, 'Did you have a chef?' I want them to be shocked by the question.
-
A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
-
I would never recommend losing on a bye, so that one definitely stays with you.
-
I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.
-
I never want to get a job because I'm female. I want to get it because I earned it and I deserve it... Whether my hair is going to be blue or purple, people should be judged on how well they do the job and deliver results and whether they do it the right way. That's how I like to be judged; most people are like that.
-
Thanks to social media such as Facebook and Twitter, a far wider range of people take part in gathering, filtering and distributing news.
-
I didn't think I could play in a band. It just wasn't an option - all band members were men, and bandleaders were men.
-
I don't want to block every contact with the Palestinians, I think that would be a mistake, and I think that Abu Mazen has an independent status as democratically elected head of the Palestinian people, and it's important if I will talk with him.
