The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
GOLDA MEIR
It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
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If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.
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There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.
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We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.
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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.
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Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you’ve left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.
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It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do?.. Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.
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Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
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We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.
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We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
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From Russia I didn’t bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror.
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By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we’d have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?
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