Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
GOLDA MEIRArab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided – not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
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It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
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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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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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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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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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I don’t want to have a bad influence on anybody, but there’s no point in my giving up cigarettes now. I won’t die young.
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Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided – not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
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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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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.
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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
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