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Quotes by Israeli Authors
"I am against preventive war because it means measures by the UN against us."
"The internal conditions in Iran are worsening in all aspects. Poverty and unemployment are becoming more severe, despite the fact that Iran has turned into a developed and industrialized country."
"I was allowed to meet my family every two weeks for a half hour."
"Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works."
"In this part of the world, Jews and Arabs will live together forever."
"It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say."
"I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half."
"The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective."
"I'm a religious man. I am Jewish but I believe in all religions. I believe in God and see him as an old man with a big white beard and pray to him every day for a few minutes."
"Israel has an important principle: It is only Israel that is responsible for our security."
"I feel I've lived so long, and went through so much, that all I want is calm and rest."
"We asked the workers to give up 25 percent of their salaries. Imagine! We asked the industrialists to freeze all costs, no matter what the inflation is."
"Any gifted child can potentially get in real trouble because of the way they are handled."
"We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel."
"In 1988, King Hussein of Jordan said that it doesn't take any connection any more to those territories, and he would like to split from those territories. So according to the international law, it doesn't belong to anyone."
"The main points were: one, the amount of Israel's nuclear weapons, how many Israel had, that no one could predict or know, including the CIA. They were thinking about a number like 10 or 15. But I came out with a number between 150 to 200."
"We believe that we should come to an agreement with the Palestinians. But we need two to tango."
"What was the appearance of God the Father? Like that of a man... God has the likeness of fingers and hands and a face."
"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."
"I'd like to ask you: what you would prefer us to do? I'd like to ask my colleagues, would any other country act differently? I think the answer is very clear. No one would act differently."
"We need to put undercover security armed people at the curbside of the terminal with the uniform of policemen. We need to protect the terminal. We need to protect the security checkpoint, the gate, the aircraft, the perimeter."
"I'm now doing three things: concerts, conducting, and teaching, and they each support each other. I learn to see things from different perspectives and listen with different ears. The most important thing that you need to do is really listen."
"As for the future, we are equally determined to explore all possibilities of getting rid, once and for all, of the huge Arab minority which originally threatened us."
"You get more nervous in front of a lot of people. That's why, when you play a concerto, you play with a small orchestra, in some place where you don't feel that it is as important as Carnegie Hall."
"If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others."
"The Hamas organization is unwilling to honor the obligations that the Palestinian Authority has signed."
"One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening."
"We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions."
"The problem here is with a human being, not with a monster, not with an animal. The human being does things that even the monster does not do, because the human is more sophisticated."
"Many times I asked myself, 'Who is a painter in your own eyes?'"
"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."
"Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist."
"That was my way, and I also use the music after five years, I started hearing opera, opera, it was very good instrument to keep the spirit very strong because you feel like you are yourself singing opera, and I used to hear a lot of opera, they send me tapes."
"Even a secret agent can't lie to a Jewish mother."
"I feel terrible that I once put too much emphasis on material prosperity."
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