Cynthia Ozick Quotes

In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance from the blitz, were bombed-out ruins and an enervated society, while the continent was still, psychologically, in the grip of its recent atrocities.

Cynthia Ozick

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Although I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either.

Jesse Owens

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When I think it's good not to say the truth, I don't say anything. I don't like actors in general, they lie, they are liars, trust me.

Melanie Laurent

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Each and every one of us who is still lucky enough to have our parents has a duty to them. We do owe them.

Ann Jillian

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The more places I go to, the more I realize I understand so little about the world.

Michael Franti

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Why do I hate Obamacare? Because it is a blast against freedom. It is a socialist program which will not work. It hasn't worked anywhere in the world. It will be repealed.

John Raese

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90 percent of the cost of malaria drugs has come down because of the work of the Clinton Foundation. There are over 10 million people around the globe today receiving life-saving HIV and AIDS drug treatments because of the Clinton Foundation.

Robby Mook

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I was raised by muses. Women who had men in awe of them and who wrote them movies and wrote them music.

Lou Doillon

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Those who argue for Brexit are wrong, and that is because they have not been properly informed about the costs.

Jose Angel Gurria

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The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing.

Johnny Depp

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I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.

Dolly Parton

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If I hadn't been born a woman, I would have certainly been gay.

Dorothy Hamill

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When we look for the origins of all humanity today, let's not just look at Europe, because I think Africa was the cradle, the crucible that created us as Homo sapiens.

Donald Johanson

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