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Yasser Arafat Quotes

I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: leader
Nationality:
Birth: August 4, 1929 - November 11, 2004

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Freedom Gun Fall Fighter Hand Olive

In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.

Live Baseball Game Die Remember You

An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan.

Stokely Carmichael

Work Strength Community Power Voice

I was in my first play when I was 6. My older sister was in a high-school production of 'The King and I.' They needed children for a scene, so she brought me in. I had a costume and a couple of serious lines that got a laugh. I loved the feeling.

Children King Me Sister Loved Laugh

Writing requires an intense inner focus, and sometimes you need to express outward, physically or socially.

Focus Writing You Sometimes Need

I live a generally quiet life, as it were.

Life Live Quiet Quiet Life Were

At my first job as an independent researcher at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, they told me I could work on most anything, but not what I knew something about. That is actually very good advice to a young person starting a career because you bring new ideas to the field.

Mildred Dresselhaus

Work Good Job Me Ideas Advice

When people start hurling insults at you, you know their minds are closed and there's no point in debating. You disengage yourself as quickly as possible from the situation.

Yourself People Start You Situation

The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind's music, medicine and knowledge.

Music Knowledge Mind Medicine Trees

If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion.

Window Fashion Think Jump Hand Out

Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education.

Education Growth Higher Education

It's more difficult playing a real-life person than a fictional character - you can go easy on yourself with a fictional character.

Christian McKay

Character Yourself Easy You Person

As always on this boulevard, the faces were young, coming annually in an endless migration from every country, every continent, to alight here once in the long journey of their lives.

Journey Long Country Young Always

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