David Ben-Gurion Quotes

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

David Ben-Gurion

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: statesman
  • Nationality: israeli
  • Birth: October 16, 1886 - December 1, 1973

Topics

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I've sort of closed my mind off to reality shows: I just don't watch them, don't care about them, don't know who the characters are, but they're all in general usage.

Joe Dante

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Sometimes when you take strong stands, if you're not called to do it, you're dividing the audience you're trying to reach.

Joel Osteen

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A company's ethical behavior is ultimately triggered by some sense of caring. And care is a sense of closeness to someone or something. A company must bring value to whom or what it is close to.

Jens Martin Skibsted

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I am such a coward when it comes to political arguments. I tend to sort of recoil rather than engage.

John Lithgow

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I can't go into a bar anywhere without someone starting to play 'the Entertainer'.

Robert Redford

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I didn't think about money or cars or anything like that.

Amy Purdy

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I think that you form the way that you act from others around you; it's a kind of an environmental thing.

Sophie Turner

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Albanians love topiary and fancy doors. They speak Albanian, an Indo-European language with traces of Greek and Latin - and the lek is their monetary denomination, which trades at one hundred to one on the dollar. Their food is excellent, a melange of Greek, Turkish, and Italian cuisine, all very fresh and legume-y.

Michael Paterniti

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I went to a quite macho art school in the 1970s, and while everyone was making hulking big sculptures, I was making things out of bits of paper.

Cornelia Parker

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That's all there was in our house: poetry and choir rehearsal and duets and so forth; I listened to Dad and Mother discuss things about poetry and delivery and voice and diction - I don't think anyone could know how much it really means.

Chuck Berry

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At Grozny TV, the line between journalism and government propaganda is traversed as often as a Manhattan crosswalk.

Anthony Marra

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I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine.

Audrey Hepburn

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