"Music was our way of remembering our inner selves, our values."

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Source : " My Take: 7 life lessons from a Holocaust survivor" by Caroline Stoessinger, religion.blogs.cnn.com. April 19, 2012.

Alice Herz-Sommer

#Self Quotes #Way Quotes #Remember Quotes

“I strongly urge you to consciously consider what success means to you. Instead of allowing others or society to determine when you win, you determine it.”

Source : Pat Heim, Tammy Hughes, Susan K. Golant (2015). “Hardball for Women: Winning at the Game of Business: Third Edition”, p.177, Penguin
“Life has a peculiar habit -- once established, it stays. Sometimes it even thrives.”
“Here, take this, she would say, take this, and tell me where he is. Tell me whether he's dead or alive, so I can walk as his widow or his wife. No one would, or could, tell her, and so she continued to cook, and to learn new things all the while searching for an answer among the outcasts. The way he carried his body, the way he walked in my life, Tatiana thought, declared that he was the only man I had ever loved, and he knew it. And until I was alone without him, I thought it was all worth it.”
“I don't like people who drain my time and energy. If you've seen the Harry Potter films, we use the term 'dementors' - people who can draw the life out of you in terms of your energy. So we eradicate the 'dementors', encourage the positive people, and that spreads around to create the team spirit we have here”
“Live all you can; it's a mistake not to.”
“The selective winnowing of time leaves only a few recognizable individuals behind for the historian to light on. Thus the historian who finds the human being more interesting than what the human being has done must inevitably endow the comparatively few individuals he can identify with too great an importance in relation to their time. Even so, I prefer this overestimate to the opposite method which treats developments as though they were the massive anonymous waves of an unhuman sea or pulverizes the fallible surviving records of human life into the grey dust of statistics.”
“I don't see myself as a 'black actor,' I'm just Shemar Moore the actor.”

Source : "Shemar Moore Talks to S&A About Crowdfunding Over $630,000 for His Next Film, Color in Casting, and More". Interview With Jai Tiggett, www.indiewire.com. August 6, 2013.
“Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.”

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