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Ehud Barak Quotes

We are living in an open world. There is a freedom of speech and, clearly, freedom of speculation.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: statesman
Nationality: israeli
Birth: February 12, 1942

Topics

Freedom World Speech Living Open

Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.

John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Think Giving Privilege Duty

When I say 'yes' to a movie it's usually because, to a greater or lesser extent, it's because I'm enthusiastic about the character. How well that character ultimately comes off depends on a lot of things: your relationship with the director and so on. But at first, you're on board because you think you can do something with it.

Character Relationship Think You Say

It was challenging. It was never easy for me. My life changed suddenly, and I lost my health. I lost the body that I knew.

Life Health Me My Life Easy Body

My mother is black, from Grenada, so my blackness was always there, but It wasn't until I started hanging with the upperclassmen black actors at my high school that I really got my roots in being a black American, which is a distinctly different identity and experience.

Mother Experience School Identity

As a writer, I can't be a heroic sword fighter like General Dumas, but I can rescue someone who's been taken out of history by using my writing to bring them back.

History Writing Someone Back I Can

I thought that if one wanted to be a writer, one had to write novels because I didn't know that one could be a poet.

Robin Coste Lewis

Thought Know Write Poet Because Had

It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent.

Queen Me Who Made Foreign Elizabeth

Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music.

Life Music My Life More Sound Noise

We still lend our old house out to relatives. They keep a guest book for my fans to sign.

Book House Old Out Relatives Fans

I'm not a great boss because I don't like to tell other people what to do.

Great Boss People Tell Because Like

I tell young teachers who are determined to dissent from some of the Draconian aspects of the current orthodoxy that the best form of protection is to be incredibly good at what you do and keep good discipline in class.

Good Discipline Best You Young Tell

The first time I was ever impressed with Patagonia as a brand was when they released the 'Don't Buy This Jacket' campaign. That campaign highlighted their understanding of their role in a larger environmental justice space.

Time Justice Space Environmental Buy

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