Alex Shoumatoff Quotes

There is a lot of interest among the descendants of Holocaust victims in getting back artworks that were looted by the Nazis, for getting at least some form of compensation and closure for the horrors visited upon their families.

Alex Shoumatoff

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 4, 1946

Topics

BackHolocaustInterestCompensation

I wish I was better looking.

Mel Brooks

LookingBetterWishI Wish

When I was counsel for the Senate Rackets Committee, about 25% of the important leads which our committee developed came from newspapers. This increased my respect for those courageous newspapers which assisted us. It also caused me to look with wonderment at some of the newspapers that did not.

Robert Kennedy

RespectMeLookImportantCommittee

Logical reasoning is an argument which we have with ourselves and which reproduces internally the features of a real argument.

Jean Piaget

ArgumentRealReasoningLogical

People say keeping it real is a hard thing to do. Keeping it real is easy. Being fake and being soft is hard to do.

Trick Daddy

PeopleFakeEasySayHardReal

Popularizing - much less venturing beyond one's secure turf - was frowned upon for many years. I think I probably internalized the prohibition, even though I was - and knew I was - among the best speakers and writers of my age cohort. I don't mean I was the best historian - a quite different measure.

Tony Judt

AgeBestThinkMeasureBeyondMean

My experience is that the universal is the personal. If you can get past your navel-gazing into the deepest part of yourself as a writer, you find everyone - we're all there.

Mary Gauthier

ExperiencePastYourselfYouFind

The good news in investing is there are no HR problems. If there are no humans, there are no problems!

Mohnish Pabrai

GoodProblemsGood NewsNewsHumans

I am very chaotic; I am always late and walking into things.

Lucy Punch

I AmWalkingLateAlwaysThingsAm

I am going to be announcing today that we will have a business delegation come to this country sometime in the future where we will bring businesses from America to Morocco to show them the vast business opportunities here.

Donald Evans

FutureBusinessTodayI AmAmerica

I try to refrain from the alarmist statement, really I do. It's bad for the liver and worries the dog, who has plenty enough to worry about as it is.

Christopher Buckley

DogWorryEnoughBadTryLiver

The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime.

Bobby Scott

DeathDeath PenaltyCrimeAnything

Pool swimmers are very slim, and they're stronger. Marathon swimmers have to train an awful lot, and they end up losing a bit of muscle mass. So we need to have a bit more fat, though that's not the case with me. Many swimmers have a little bit of extra fat though, so that they can deal with the cold and get through what is an exhausting event.

Poliana Okimoto

LosingMeColdEndFatStronger

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