Shimon Peres Quotes

My heart goes out to the brave citizens of Syria, who each day risk and even sacrifice their lives to achieve freedom from a murderous regime. We in Israel welcome the historic struggle to forge democratic, peace-loving governments in our region.

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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With crime fiction, you have to write a half-dozen before they catch on.

John Banville

YouCrimeWriteFictionCatch

I think the glue that held 'Fringe' together was the relationships.

John Noble

TogetherThinkRelationshipsGlue

It's never a good thing to see a government agency talk in secret about the need to 'control protestors' - especially when that agency is charged with protecting the homeland against terrorists, not nonviolent demonstrators exercising their First Amendment rights to peaceable dissent.

Michael Hastings

GoodGovernmentControlTalkNever

Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.

Michael Morpurgo

EducationFutureHopeChildrenBest

People think the world of music is so great, and it's just not. It's so boring, the way music is conceived and then declawed for public consumption.

Josh Tillman

MusicGreatPeopleWorldThinkWay

'Superunknown' was one of the most dramatic shifts in what we were doing musically. I don't think I realized it at the time.

Chris Cornell

TimeThinkDoingMusicallyDramatic

I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound.

Anne Stevenson

WorkTryingPossibleTryRhythm

When we meet a work of art, there's something about that encounter that isn't fixed in time, but rather, it unfixes time: the shaft opens. The past and present exist in the same moment, and we know, as beings, that we are connected. All the people who lived before us, all who will come after us, are connected in this moment.

Ali Smith

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I first came to Delhi with my parents when I was 15 years old. We went to see the Red Fort, and I was walking behind my parents, and some guy who was walking along touched me inappropriately. I screamed, but he was acting so cool about it. I did not create any further scene and left.

Shenaz Treasury

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I'm not much of a partier anymore. I enjoy clarity much more.

Sheryl Crow

EnjoyClarityMoreAnymoreMuch

There is history in condoms, there is history in lampshades, there is history in everything.

Norman Davies

HistoryEverything

We've been very lucky to have UKIP in the U.K. If we hadn't been here, the BNP would be doing very well.

Nigel Farage

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