Dan Shechtman Quotes
I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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The world is always in movement.
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If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless of what period of time you think you have to remedy.
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I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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Researchers looked at news programs on major broadcast and cable networks between 2008 and 2012 and found that of those labeled as domestic terrorists, 81% were identifiable as Muslims - this despite the fact that FBI reports from the period studied revealed that only 6% of domestic terrorist suspects were Muslim.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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I never get recognised here in London, which I like. Once a year, someone comes up to me and asks if I am 'so-and-so's niece' because they think they recognise me from somewhere. I like that.
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I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.
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I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
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When I look back, I am happy that my mum took me to the gymnastics club. I didn't join gymnastics to become a famous athlete or celebrity; it just happened - I did more than I expected, of course.
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Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks down a lot.
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I went to Moses Malone's golf tournament in Houston, and I've been hooked ever since.
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People like music when they're in love, but they don't need it as much. You need music when you're missing someone or you're pining for someone or you're forgetting someone or you're trying to process what just happened.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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I like working with my own body weight, and I just do the best job I can to be healthy and strong, both before and after a fight.
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I kind of just stumbled into producing. It was more that I was a writer, and the only way you were going to get your songs done was to do them yourself.
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I like a bit of a mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog; they're the best for every day.
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In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.
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Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.
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But, sir, they have written me down upon the history of the country as worthy of expulsion, and in no unkindness I must tell them that for all future time my self-respect requires that I shall pass them as strangers.
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I am a bisexual Cuban-American woman, and I am so proud of it.
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.