Aharon Appelfeld Quotes
Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.
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I put my friends and family first. I'm really just a normal thirteen-year-old girl who has a different hobby than most girls my age. Acting is kind of an extracurricular activity.
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'
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Fashion shows used to be more crazy. Now they've become a bit too serious.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
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Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
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Everybody wants to defeat the defending champs.
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Essentially, you have to be aware of a crisis happening: 'Can the company go on if I get hit by a bus?' That's, I think, how you build a great company and something that can scale.
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As professional soccer players, we take our bodies to the extreme. We're the people at the gym that look like we're breaking the machines. Pushing our bodies to the limits is what makes us so strong and capable and Olympians. It's not an easy thing to consistently do over and over again to your body.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.
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Hats look exactly the same. There's no difference between The Writing Hat and The Acting Hat.
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For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.
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Preach or proselytize for Christianity in much of the Islamic world, and you are a candidate for martyrdom. Practice freedom of speech in Xi Jinping's China, and you can wind up in a cell.
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Some authors state that the last stage in this chain of measurements involves "consciousness," or the "intellectual inner life" of the observer, by virtue of the "principle of psycho-physical parallelism." Other authors introduce a wave function for the entire universe. In this book, I shall refrain from using concepts that I do not understand.
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We need a tax code that promotes savings, investment, achievement, innovation, and hard work.
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Listen to God's speech in his wondrous, terrible, gentle, loving, all-embracing silence.
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I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means - I love art.
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The implied threat of using nuclear weapons to curb guerrillas was as absurd as to talk of using a sledge hammer to ward off a swarm of mosquitoes.
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Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.
