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Elie Wiesel Quotes

When my father was born, it was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. When I was born, it was Lithuania. When I left, it was Hungary. It is difficult to say where I come from.

Elie Wiesel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Father Born Say Difficult Empire

I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side. When I got to college, as I was walking across campus one day, I ripped off a little flyer for this sketch-comedy group. It ended up being one of the greatest things I've ever done.

John Krasinski

Teacher Day College Walking Done Up

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

John Marshall

Power Tax Destroy

I think that the level playing field is so unlevel - it is tilted so much in favor of Chinese companies - that it's time for the United States to do a little bit more, see.

Max Baucus

Time Think More See Little Playing

Our whole philosophy was to intimidate the quarterback. We were able to do it. We were pioneers. People still recognize us as, maybe, the best defensive line of all time.

Merlin Olsen

Time Best People Philosophy Line Us

You have to find ways to find that center, to find that balance, to find sanity, because again, we are getting bigger, and people look at us that way. We have to find that new balance.

Travis Kalanick

Balance People You Look Find New

So the American economy needs the world, and the world needs the American economy.

Rodrigo Rato

World American Economy Needs

So we want to free the women of America? You know what would free the women of America? Make men accept responsibility for birth control.

Judy Sheindlin

Women Responsibility Men Control You

The build-up of personal and collective debt in America and Europe should have sent warning signals to anyone familiar with the biblical institutions of the Sabbatical and Jubilee years, created specifically because of the danger of people being trapped by debt.

Jonathan Sacks

People America Debt Personal Trapped

We forget that most questions in this world - the ones that really matter - are impossible to answer completely.

Chloe Benjamin

World Impossible Questions Forget

I come from one of these hideous backgrounds where being sincere is like - ugh, you might as well kill yourself.

Christina Ricci

Yourself You Sincere Where Well

I'm not being naive; I realise there's no such thing as a pure reading. But I'd rather keep myself as far out of it as I can.

Anne Michaels

Myself Reading I Can Naive Out Pure

I listen to everything and find parts about a song in the lyrics/melody/chords/production that I like and can be inspired by when I write my next song.

Astrid S

Song Find Listen Write Everything