Shimon Peres Quotes

That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two.

Shimon Peres

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: statesman
  • Nationality: israeli
  • Birth: August 2, 1923 - September 28, 2016

Topics

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To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

MenPurposePersonThingsFirm

I feel like the few times in my life when I really felt like I love my own story is when I've been the happiest.

Jens Lekman

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If you do something very successful, you will then be defined by it.

Steve Coogan

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Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.

Amy Tan

PowerWordsAmazingMeMagicYou

A complete autobiography would indeed be a picture of the outer and inner universe photographed upon one little life's consciousness. For does not the whole world, seen and unseen, go to the making up of every human being?

Lucy Larcom

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One of the great things about Silicon Valley is, irrespective of how competitive you might be with another company or how closely you might be working with that company, there's a great sort of give and take, and camaraderie from - between - some of the executives in the valley and some of the other investors in the valley.

Dick Costolo

GreatYouGreat ThingsCompanyTake

I like to make popcorn movies. It's my passion. I love the genre.

Dean Devlin

LovePassionMoviesPopcornLike

Why should we change on stage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way.

Clancy Brown

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I'm proud of my triumphs. I've dreamed of being world champion, I've had some difficult times and they've made me value the good times.

Sete Gibernau

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It's absurd: half the movie audience are women, but Hollywood bosses are still aiming for men who are 20.

Todd Haynes

WomenMenHollywoodAudienceHalf

There's two kinds of rock n' roll casualty: the one that has huge success and adoration, and then suddenly it stops. Or there's when you're in a band: it is all-consuming, so then you have the dream of that, and then the dream's taken away from you even before it happens.

Rhys Ifans

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Surfing is my religion, if I have one.

Kelly Slater

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