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Quotes by Israeli Authors
"I can tell you one thing, Iran is closer to developing nuclear weapons today than it was a week ago, or a month ago or a year ago. It's just moving on with its efforts."
"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."
"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."
"The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible."
"I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples."
"Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them."
"In this part of the world, Jews and Arabs will live together forever."
"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."
"Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition."
"This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in five or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like crude oil. You know this is how it is supposed to taste at this stage of development."
"Israel has an important principle: It is only Israel that is responsible for our security."
"I believe in past lives but I know nothing about mine and I don't want to know. I live in the present, taking one day at a time."
"He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor."
"I worked every day there, so I knew all the details. But I needed only some proof. So the proof was photos."
"For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them."
"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."
"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."
"Though we are not Almighty God Himself, nevertheless, we are now divine."
"Even a secret agent can't lie to a Jewish mother."
"It isn't a secret that my heart is damaged. All the treatments and medications haven't been effective."
"As for now, we must not forget who would have to exchange the land? those villages which live more than others on irrigation, on orange and fruit plantations, in houses built near water wells and pumping stations, on livestock and property and easy access to markets."
"Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor."
"As for the long-term future: I am prepared to see in this a vision, not a mystical way but in a realistic way, of a population exchange on a much more important scale and including larger territories."
"The Jews have opened fire, and they are unready to begin a war."
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