Stephane Hessel Quotes

I feel that I am completely in solidarity with Jews in the world, because I know what it is to be a Jew. I've seen what it is; I am myself of Jewish origin, and therefore I can only be fully in support of the idea that the Jews, after all they've suffered, need a country where they are at home.

Stephane Hessel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: diplomat
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: October 20, 1917 - February 26, 2013

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I swam in high school.

Jimmie Johnson

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If men can learn to be less defensive, more open to others, and more accepting of accountability, they will adapt well to the new global economy.

John Gerzema

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I never argue with people about movies.

Andrew Sarris

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What people want out of their politicians is exactly the same thing that I want - somebody who is approachable, willing to work, and tells me the truth as they see it.

John Yarmuth

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In high school, I got into folk music, and I taught myself guitar. And when The Beatles came out, I got an electric guitar.

Tommy Ramone

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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.

Tom Waits

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Be spectacularly great at what you do. Wear your passion on your sleeve and hold your heart in the palm of your hand. And work hard. Really hard.

Robin S. Sharma

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If things are going wrong in a country, it's not usually that we don't have enough foreigners. It's usually that we have too many.

Rory Stewart

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I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings.

Mary Wortley Montagu

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There is a lot of work out there to take people out of the loop in things like medical diagnosis. But if you are taking humans out of the loop, you are in danger of ending up with a very cold form of AI that really has no sense of human interest, human emotions, or human values.

Louis B. Rosenberg

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Any goal worth achieving involves an element of risk.

Dean Karnazes

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I think professionally I admire people and the way they've handled their careers and being in the media. But the people that I used to inspire me and keep me going were my peers in Toronto - I would see the same girls going to audition after audition, and their resilience to do it again, and I found that inspiring.

Anna Silk

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