"One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present."

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Source : "My Life". Book by Golda Meir, 1975.

Golda Meir

#Inspiration Quotes #Past Quotes #Trying Quotes

“It is always disappointing when a player is not prepared to stick it out and fight for his place in a national team.”
“Power for men means the ability to make things happen ... The female definition of power is the ability not to have to please.”
“If an artwork never gets any attention from anybody, then obviously it's got problems. If it gains attention from a very small elite, then it's presumably doing something. Finnegans Wake gets a lot of attention from certain people who become passionate about it, who are usually very good readers in general. Although - I often talk about costs and benefits - it seems to me the costs of reading Finnegans Wake are not worth the benefits, however many there may be. And it's the same with the more arcane among poets, Zukofsky and so on.”
“Gershwin's tragedy was not that he failed to cross the tracks, but rather that he did, and once there in his new habitat, was deprived of the chance to plunge his roots firmly into the new soil.”
“Death hath so many doors to let out life.”

Source : 'The Custom of the Country' (with Massinger) act 2, sc. 2.
“To have your childhood dream realized is a really big deal.”

Source : "Maya Rudolph: The Fresh Air Interview". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 8, 2012.
“You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself.”
“Every now and then, I'll run into someone who claims not to like chocolate, and while we live in a country where everyone has the right to eat what they want, I want to say for the record that I don't trust these people, that I think something is wrong with them, and that they're probably - and this must be said - total duds in bed.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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