"My father left Nazi Germany a year after Dr. Kissinger, and so in my household he was very much an icon. He was a kind of immigrant success story, a refugee success story."

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Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Eugene Jarecki

#Father Quotes #Years Quotes #Icons Quotes

“We are not primarily called to do something or go somewhere; we are called to Someone. We are not called first to special work but to God. The key to answering the call is to be devoted to no one and to nothing above God himself.”
“The health insurance industry does not like to pay out claims, because they don't make money. The only way they can make a profit is if they don't pay for your operation. If they pay for your operation and your doctor's appointment and your pharmaceuticals, they don't make any money.”
“I keep every script from every film that I ever made because it's like a workbook of that time in my life.”
“You really have to humble yourself and take your ***** whippings to understand that you can learn something from somebody”
“You only learn to be a better writer by actually writing.”
“I am a woman with chronic schizophrenia. I have spent hundreds of days in psychiatric hospitals. I could have ended up living most of my life on a back ward, but things turned out quite differently.”

Source : "My life with schizophrenia" by Elyn Saks, www.cnn.com. August 12, 2012.
“Breathes there a man with hide so tough Who says two sexes aren't enough?”

Source : Samuel Hoffenstein (1954). “Complete Poetry”
“I have a very basic leg. But it has a silicon cover on it. I have a flat foot leg, a high heel leg and then I have a leg which, in the winter, I have to ski in and in the summer I swap it into my roller blades.”

Source : "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. March 20, 2007.

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