Andrei Codrescu Quotes

My mother and I were part of a deal in the mid-'60s between Romania and Israel. Israel bought freedom for Romanian Jews for $2,000 a head. Ceausescu made a bundle in hard currency. He also 'sold' ethnic Germans to West Germany. Instead of going to Israel, my mother and I came to the United States.

Andrei Codrescu

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 20, 1946

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I have never for a minute felt in was my stock picking abilities. I feel that my stock picking abilities aided- I was able to pick out which are the good stocks in the good market, but I have been blessed with a great market.

Jim Cramer

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I never go to the gym - I can't be doing with it. But I run up and down the stairs, wash my feet in the basin to keep supple, and I don't eat things that have a pulse.

Joanna Lumley

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I'm an active and involved senator. It's very difficult to do the job I want to do and spend as much time as I want with my kids... It is time for me to be a father first to them, and I realize as I watch them grow and become young adults that I won't be able to get this time back.

Robert J. Garagiola

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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

Sophocles

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Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.

Tony Visconti

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There's so many films from around the world, I emphasize, that are so beautifully photographed, but they don't get the recognition.

Roger Deakins

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Is it going to be the people of Kentucky who decides who their senator's going to be, or is it going to be Mitch McConnell saying, 'This is my protege Trey; this is who your next senator's going to be.'?

Matt Bevin

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I am a believer in free trade, fair free trade.

Juan Manuel Santos

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Sinatra had a lot of mood swings, but he was wonderful to my wife Barbara and to me. He made no bones about who he liked and who he loved, and he had this great charisma. When he walked into a room, it stopped. I've only seen that happen with Ronald Reagan.

Don Rickles

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I haven't really ever had to audition for anything.

Dawn French

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If you're deluded, you live in a place where there isn't everyone else's reality.

Christopher Guest

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Music controls moods and accents life's moments. It's necessary for every situation.

Chuck Inglish

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