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.
GOLDA MEIR
Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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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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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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Anybody who believes in something without reservation believes that this thing is right and should be, has the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them.
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To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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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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The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
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The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
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I’m a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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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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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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