"I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned."

-- Shimon Peres

#Defense Quotes #Ministry Quotes

“I entered politics in 1967; since then, continuously, I am getting elected... Fortunately I never lost the elections.”
“If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.”
“Cancer is such a ruthless adversary because it behaves as if it has its own fiendishly cunning agenda.”
“The poet wants to ‘say’ something. Why, then, doesn’t he say it directly and fortrightly? Why is he willing to say it only through his metaphors? Through his metaphors, he risks saying it partially and obscurely, and risks saying nothing at all. But the risk must be taken, for direct statement leads to abstraction and threatens to take us out of poetry altogether.”
“I had a go at changing history - maybe not all by myself - I fought at the battle of Normandy, I slogged through the Ardennes, and I celebrated the liberation of Paris on the streets with beautiful French girls throwing flowers at me. I said good-bye to my first true love and discovered what I really wanted to do with my life.”

Source : Leroy Neiman (2013). “All Told: My Art and Life Among Athletes, Playboys, Bunnies, and Provocateurs”, p.28, Rowman & Littlefield
“I am miserable when I'm in a movie I'm not proud of and a movie that I don't want to do.”
“Eloquence the soul, song charms the senses.”
“Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them.”

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