Elie Wiesel Quotes
Most people thought we would remain in the ghetto until the end of the war, until the arrival of the Red Army. Afterward everything would be as before. The ghetto was ruled by neither German nor Jew; it was ruled by delusion.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.
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I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.
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I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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I do think that people outside the fashion industry imagine that being a model is what you might call quick, easy money, but it can be very lonely - you have to be quite tough. It's also very physically demanding.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.
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Devotion, as it relates to the title of my memoir, means fidelity - as in fidelity to a person or a practice. I think it's certainly possible to feel devotion without having faith, at least in the religious sense of the word.
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Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
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OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.
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I was lucky in the sense that I was never blessed with an overly reflective nature.
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If western culture is shown to be rich, it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to 'dissolve' harmful simplifications through inquiry and the critical mind.
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Most people thought we would remain in the ghetto until the end of the war, until the arrival of the Red Army. Afterward everything would be as before. The ghetto was ruled by neither German nor Jew; it was ruled by delusion.
