Elie Wiesel Quotes
'The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...'
Quotes to Explore
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I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.
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I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.
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I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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I had to make different kinds of music for everybody but still keep it classic T-Pain at the same time.
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I want to have a long career.
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One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
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Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
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For people who deal with anxiety or depression or can't be in large social groups cognitively, emotionally, or even physically, phones help bridge the gap.
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In listening to the narratives of the Congolese, I came to terms with the extent to which their bodies had become battlefields.
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Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.
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I realised one day that men are emotional cripples. We can't express ourselves emotionally, we can only do it with anger and humour. Emotional stability and expression comes from women.
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Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.
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'The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...'
