Elie Wiesel Quotes
What I don't like today is, to put it coarsely, the phony Hasidism, the phony mysticism. Many students say, 'Teach me mysticism.' It's a joke.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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We have heard time and time again in the course of our work how talking can help heal the hidden challenges we can't deal with alone.
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I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.
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I follow the universe; I follow G-d. G-d made the sun, and the sun shines on everyone.
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I ride my bike for transportation a great deal - occasionally I ride it for fun. But I also have a generator bike that's hooked up to my solar battery pack, so if I ride 15 minutes hard on my bike, that's enough energy to toast toast, or power my computer.
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When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.
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Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, 'You've got such a pretty face; why don't you lose some weight?' Over the years I've realised that my body is a certain type, and I have learned to accept it.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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I moved when I was 16. I had no clue what to expect in moving to L.A. I had no clue, really, about what acting was. I just knew that I wanted to do it.
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Christmas is a huge thing in my family. We usually start decorating the day after Thanksgiving. We spend Christmas Eve with one set of grandparents, and Christmas Day with the other grandparents and our family.
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It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.
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I know that I cannot be with a person for three hours without saying at least ten things that would kill me.
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No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage.
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Sometimes I think we'd all be better off if the people who mean well would just creep away and die.
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I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.
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We have made a commitment to feed 20-million people over the next two years. We are somewhere around 10 million. But I can promise you that we are not going to stop at 20 million. Because hunger, there is almost no cure for it. You can take care of the problem today, but it is a recurring problem.
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As a former Catholic, and as someone who even today is not opposed to being called a Christian, I felt I had every right to use the symbols of the Church and resented being told not to.
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What I don't like today is, to put it coarsely, the phony Hasidism, the phony mysticism. Many students say, 'Teach me mysticism.' It's a joke.
