Elie Wiesel Quotes
One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto.From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me.The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.
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I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.
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It's up to God to do the judging. You haven't walked in my boots, so how are you going to judge me?
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Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
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Standing up on the right to trial by jury is something that, really, a lot of people should agree with, you know, both on the Right and the Left.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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I was playing a defensive guard in 'My All American' who is a really fast runner, so a lot of my training was running. I wasn't too worried about bulking up because he was supposed to be on the small side.
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I love sparkly eyes for the holidays, especially New Year's Eve.
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I brought in a yogurt master from Turkey. I went to Greece. I was always going back and forth, from New York to Turkey and Greece. The recipe we use has been around hundreds and hundreds of years. Growing up in Turkey, not a day would go by that we wouldn't eat yogurt like this.
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My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.
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The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time.
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Sure, being a reservist wasn't as glamorous, but I was the one who had to look at myself in the mirror.
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When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.
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In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home.
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I don't think, until you've actually lost somebody you really love, that you can go through that door that allows you to be grown-up.
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I had a low image of myself because I was brought up in the deep Depression.
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The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.
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All my life, people have made fun of the way I speak. I guess because a lot of my vocabulary is made up of things that other people say. I started making fun of them and imitating them and now that's how I speak.
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I'm not going to give up the shock part of my comedy.
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Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.
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Yes, I do strive to be someone young women can look up to.
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America needs to step up and lead for once.
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I have a weird thing with knives. I don't like knives very much. Like when my parents are cooking in the kitchen and using knives to chop vegetables, I can't be in the same room. For whatever reason, knives just terrify me.
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One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto.From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me.The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.
