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Elie Wiesel Quotes

A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: September 30, 1928 - July 2, 2016

Topics

Man Destruction Only Provoke Prevent

I wasn't born Austrian; I wasn't born German. My roots are from Africa, and I do not have any reason for not wanting to celebrate that. Every time that I can, I like to kind of mention it, you know, just to keep people sort of knowing exactly what's going on. My French is pretty good, but I'm still African, thank you very much.

Good Time People Roots Celebrate

India needs jobs, Germany needs people, and collaboration is crucial to meet the demographic needs of both countries.

People Collaboration India Meet Both

The 'Rescue Me' gig was a unique opportunity to play a character - a misanthropic, angry guy - who was so contrary to how people think of me.

Character Opportunity Angry People

I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.

Funny Hate Woman Head Shoulders Her

They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.

Me Thought Find True More Him

When you know it's a game, you can have more fun playing it. When things seem serious, you tend to take less risk and have less fun.

Fun Game You Serious Know Risk

I've never had an exclusive relationship to a room where I write. I used to want one.

Relationship Want Never Write Room

I wouldn't want to go back to my 20s; they were pretty angst-laden times.

Miranda Richardson

Back Go Want Pretty Were Times

My mother painted and wrote. She always had a painting in progress on an easel in the kitchen, so our house always smelled like oil paint. At night, she wrote after she'd put my sisters and me to bed, and the sound of her typing was our lullaby.

Mother Progress Me Painting Night

What I want is that I can match my performances during training so I can be satisfied with myself.

Myself Training I Can Want Satisfied

When I got home from hospital, and I was in a wheelchair in a plaster body cast, an aeroplane flew over. And I thought to myself, 'Well, if I can't walk, then I might as well fly.' And I was lifted into the aeroplane for the first time. And when I took the controls of the aeroplane, I knew this was something I could do. I thought, 'I can fly.'

Janine Shepherd

Home Time Myself Walk Fly Thought

Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations.

Money Diet Trying Long You Living

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