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 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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Making films. It gave me a voice. Legitimately saved me.
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Just like I gave Jack Ma and Alibaba the luxury of staying private for longer, I am now giving Arm the gift of being private. My only message to them now is take my investment and let's go, go, go.
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Nobody put the camera on the background singers who were singing. It was on Stevie Wonder. It was on Elton John. It was on whoever was the lead singer out front. We were 20 feet from stardom.
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I would love to continue working behind the scenes in music - to produce and manage up-and-coming musical talent would be a dream!
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The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament.
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Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
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'The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...'
