Eliot Engel Quotes
Yet, nearly 6 decades after the Holocaust concluded, Anti-Semitism still exists as the scourge of the world.
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On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
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Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real.
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In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.
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Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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Like most Russians, I am very superstitious, and if I don't get married, I don't get divorced.
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I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.
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Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
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Winning a Grand Slam changes everything. There is so much off-court stuff to deal with. And there are expectations of keeping it going that make it tough.
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All my brothers and sisters are really witty, and I would just sit back and enjoy them.
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I would like to do things like I did in Tanzania, going somewhere and exploring a theme and investigating as well as performing for those people.
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I don't do the same food in Tokyo that I do in Vegas and vice versa. If I did that, two weeks later I would have no customers.
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If there were a map of the solar system, but instead of stars it showed people and their degrees of separation, my star would be the one you had to travel the most light-years from to get to his. You would die getting to him.
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Yet, nearly 6 decades after the Holocaust concluded, Anti-Semitism still exists as the scourge of the world.
