Aharon Appelfeld Quotes
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I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. Look, guys, the punishment for resisting arrest shouldn't be death. The punishment for selling bootleg CDs shouldn't be death. The punishment for having a gun in an open-carry state shouldn't be death. The punishment for being a black man shouldn't be death.
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It doesn't matter if people perceive me as being a little strange. I think overall, even when I am on stage, when people see me, I am setting an example.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.
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Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
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Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
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I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.
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I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda.
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I was a very rotund child with short hair, and for some reason, I always had black ballet shoes. I was like the Wednesday Addams of ballet.
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I like to be busy. It's not always easy because the schedule gets busy; especially, the more successful you are, the more demands you have. But it's definitely worth the sacrifice.
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I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.
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I don't like being left to my own thoughts.
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I'm doing music, and we both want to do some drama.
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It was a natural process, because when we go to the ring we are human beings, but once you feel the punches and the competition that's when the beast comes out and takes hold of us.
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Palm will face significant threats to its business. Now is the time for the Palm board to act, while Palm still has category-leading products, marketplace momentum and a terrific balance sheet.
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Images of resentment and revenge only have us spending the precious moments of our lives imagining the 'other' as both dangerous and important!
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A story is not only meaning, it's music as well.
