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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I'm kind of fascinated by this idea that we can surround ourselves with information: we can just pile up data after data after data and arm ourselves with facts and yet still not be able to answer the questions that we have.
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I think personally, I've always felt that the Association [NAACP] got itself hung-up in what I call its legal successes. Having had so many outstanding legal successes, it definitely seemed to have oriented its thinking in the direction that the way to achieve was through the courts.
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It is okay not to like someone, but it is never okay to try and degrade, humiliate, or dehumanize them.
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I think that so-called capitalism and trade is a very important element in giving people opportunity.
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So much of the physical world has been explored. But the deluge of data I get to investigate really lets me chart new territory. Genetic data from people living today forms an archaeological record of what happened to their ancestors 10,000 years ago.
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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.
