Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
GOLDA MEIRGlorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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I want to say to you, friends, that the Jewish community in Palestine is going to fight to the very end. If we have arms to fight with, we will fight with those, and if not, we will fight with stones in our hands.
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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
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The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you’re in it there’s nothing you can do. You can’t stop a plane, you can’t stop a storm, you can’t stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.
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Women’s liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
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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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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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There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.
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You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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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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A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
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There is no such thing as a Palestinian people… It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn’t exist.
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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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