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I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about s...
AMOS OZ

Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right.
AMOS OZ

And in this respect, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very p...
AMOS OZ

All of my novels are democracies.
AMOS OZ

Sippur al ahava vehoshekh
AMOS OZ

The Jewish settlers of Gaza and in the West Bank have a dream for the future of Israel.... The settl...
AMOS OZ

For more than 30 years, ... the settlers' dream has overwhelmed the dream of secular Israelis. Day i...
AMOS OZ

The evacuation of the settlements from the Gaza Strip is not just a struggle over the question of th...
AMOS OZ

Activism is a Way of Life
AMOS OZ

Literary and political work helps people to ged rid of stereotypes
AMOS OZ

Two years ago, a sudden change occurred. Sharon's rhetoric changed overnight.
AMOS OZ

I call'd the devil, and he came / And with wonder his form did I closely scan / He is not ugly, and ...
AMOS OZ

Two children of same cruel parent look at one another and see in each other the image of the cruel p...
AMOS OZ

On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was conside...
AMOS OZ

If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides...
AMOS OZ

But for 30 years, Orthodox leaders have tipped the balance between hawks and doves, and have been in...
AMOS OZ

Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied ...
AMOS OZ

I wrote a novel about Israelis who live their own lives on the slope of a volcano. Near a volcano on...
AMOS OZ

But The Same Sea is set precisely in this Israel, which never makes it to the news headlines anywher...
AMOS OZ

The actual gap between Labor, Likud and the new central party is microscopic.
AMOS OZ

Love is a curious mixture of opposites, a blend of extreme selfishness and total devotion. A paradox...
AMOS OZ

She had not wanted him to but had let him have his way because ever since she was a child she had ge...
AMOS OZ

io, mio caro, non credo nell'amore universale. L'amore esiste in dosi modiche. Si possono amare fors...
AMOS OZ

ll our tongues and cultures are constant shoplifters" from other tongues and cultures.
AMOS OZ

Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if y...
AMOS OZ

L'amore è una faccenda intima strana e piena di contraddizioni, visto che non di rado amiamo qualcu...
AMOS OZ

It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent ea...
AMOS OZ

In many ways, I regard Sharon and Arafat as birds of a feather.
AMOS OZ

One of the things I wanted to introduce in The Same Sea beyond transcending the conflict, is the fac...
AMOS OZ

When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like ...
AMOS OZ

And remember that friendship between a woman and a man is something much more precious and rare than...
AMOS OZ

If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you ar...
AMOS OZ Your genetics load the gun. Your lifestyle pulls the trigger.
MEHMET OZ I feel differently immediately when I start to put weight on. I don't like that sluggish, blunte...
MEHMET OZ If you don't know your blood pressure, it's like not knowing the value of your company.
MEHMET OZ You get the health benefits of coffee up through about the first twenty-four ounces. It's the bi...
MEHMET OZ The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.
MEHMET OZ

A gluten-free diet still allows you access to almost every fruit and vegetable, a variety of grains ...
DAPHNE OZ

After my first week of no wheat, my stomachaches were gone, my mucous cleared up, and I felt incredi...
DAPHNE OZ

At my heaviest, I was 5'8" and 175 pounds. I ate well, but in too large quantities, and I r...
DAPHNE OZ

A 'diet' is simply an individual's eating regimen: it doesn't have to mean the restr...
DAPHNE OZ

The Dorm Room Diet is nothing like the conventional diets you may have tried in the past. It offers ...
DAPHNE OZ

My dad, who is a heart surgeon, works with many adult patients who did not take good care of their b...
DAPHNE OZ

Figuring out how to eat healthfully on your own without your parents' guidance is one of the har...
DAPHNE OZ

I was a good 30 pounds overweight throughout high school, and it wasn't until I was going away t...
DAPHNE OZ

I didn't grow up eating meat - I was a vegetarian until I was 18.
DAPHNE OZ

My parents always wanted me to know why eating healthfully was important to overall performance, pro...
DAPHNE OZ

While fad diets might seem like the quick-fix solution to lose weight, they won't help you get h...
DAPHNE OZ

I have two pairs of stretchy maternity leggings and jeans, which I will never give up, because once ...
DAPHNE OZ

Exercise is important, but exercise in a gym is not important. Go and take a walk outside. Skip the ...
DAPHNE OZ I do practice what I preach when it comes to nutrition.
MEHMET OZ

Everyone has their own definition of a healthy lifestyle, and mine has come to mean making health a ...
DAPHNE OZ You need to be proactive, carve out time in your schedule, and take responsibility for being the hea...
MEHMET OZ Unfortunately, several companies are attempting to deceive consumers through the unauthorized use of...
MEHMET OZ Hope and Crosby made seven 'Road' movies, starting in 1940 with 'Road to Singapore.'...
FRANK OZ Always two there are, a master and an apprentice.
FRANK OZ As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but...
MEHMET OZ At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you're not in th...
MEHMET OZ

Developing a diet that is healthful, balanced, and appropriate for your particular caloric needs is ...
DAPHNE OZ Most food you drop is still perfectly edible. If it was in your eyesight the whole time, you can pic...
MEHMET OZ The biggest mistake people make is to try to lose too much weight too fast.
MEHMET OZ [But the digital effects have a flip side. After Yoda became CG,] I missed the interaction with acto...
FRANK OZ Mmm. Lost a planet, Master Obi-Wan has. How embarrassing. How embarrassing.
FRANK OZ We don't walk. We overeat because we've made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on...
MEHMET OZ Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
FRANK OZ You cannot drive a system that's going to be aiming at preventing illness if everyone is not in ...
MEHMET OZ I'm sure people think that I'm out in left field you know, playing by myself.
MEHMET OZ If I make your workplace conducive to walking at lunch, or working out at some time during the day, ...
MEHMET OZ Medications almost always do it better if they're used in conjunction with other supports.
MEHMET OZ True health care reform cannot happen in Washington. It has to happen in our kitchens, in our homes,...
MEHMET OZ The biggest problems with movies are expectations.
FRANK OZ As far as food goes, I'm pretty easy. I love Japanese food. I love meatloaf and mashed potatoes. I l...
FRANK OZ The more work I do, the more important it is to work with people I like - who are very talented.
FRANK OZ I was a weird kid. I should've been gay because I listened to a lot of Broadway musicals. I don't kn...
FRANK OZ Jim (Henson) should have ****in' fired me several times...
FRANK OZ but sweet.
FRANK OZ He was the person responsible really for the heart of the Muppets,
FRANK OZ I looked up to him because I was just a kid and this guy was actually doing the real work,
FRANK OZ I saw many people who had advanced heart disease and I was so frustrated because I knew if they just...
MEHMET OZ Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of huma...
MEHMET OZ I'd like to read a book sometime. I've never read a book before. That'd be an adventure. I understan...
FRANK OZ Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is.
FRANK OZ Piggy is certainly hard, but that's just part of the job. I don't even think about it. She's also ha...
FRANK OZ I do, yes, I do. Sick have I become. Old and weak. When nine hundred years old you reach, look as go...
FRANK OZ Early must I rise. Leave now you must!
FRANK OZ In my business, if I get too close to you and you die, it hurts me. And so you develop a natural inc...
MEHMET OZ Down here, I am. Find a ladder, I must!
FRANK OZ Beware of the dark side.
FRANK OZ Clear your mind must be, if you are to discover the real villains behind this plot.
FRANK OZ A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.
FRANK OZ I never wanted to be a puppeteer. I stopped puppeteering when I was about 18. I puppeteered when I w...
FRANK OZ I've rewritten a lot of the scripts I've done. 'Little Shop Of Horrors' was a comple...
FRANK OZ Your waist size should not be more than half your height.
MEHMET OZ No matter how old you are, no matter how much you weigh, you can still control the health of your bo...
MEHMET OZ I don't operate on smokers. I tell cigarette smokers that I can operate on you, I get paid the s...
MEHMET OZ I bought a tape recorder and some stuff and went to Europe for three months when I was 18. The puppe...
FRANK OZ I don't buy diamonds, I don't buy cars, but I enjoy travelling. I'm not a very possessiv...
FRANK OZ I love 'Time Bandits;' it's great.
FRANK OZ

I lost a company. So what? It's just stuff. Can't take it with you.
WALLY AMOS

Email is the greatest thing.
WALLY AMOS

Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.
WALLY AMOS

I believe, along with many others, that you must first ask for what you want before you can have it.
WALLY AMOS

In some areas I am more noted for reading then I am for cookies!
WALLY AMOS

Nothing is an obstacle unless you say it is.
WALLY AMOS

Many people lock a part of themselves away. It's a bit sacred.
TORI AMOS

I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded ...
TORI AMOS

Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.
TORI AMOS Death is not a period, but a comma in the story of life.
AMOS TRAVER

Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They'...
TORI AMOS

I'm not like a poker player. I'm not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and te...
TORI AMOS

The world moves fast. Business moves fast. Digital media moves extremely fast. It is far too easy to...
SHAWN AMOS The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates ...
AMOS PARRISH

Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be...
TORI AMOS

It's as if the horses have come to take us back, to descend, to find the dark side. By dark I mean w...
TORI AMOS

If you can't create physical life, you find a life force. If that's in music, that's in music. I sta...
TORI AMOS

You can't control your popularity; I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody w...
TORI AMOS

It makes me think of mushroom pasta with dripping garlic bread and butter, not margarine, no margari...
TORI AMOS

Sometimes I think you want me to touch you, how can I when you build a great wall around you.
TORI AMOS

Your worst enemies are made when you ignore people. Those boys in America who shot dead classmates r...
TORI AMOS

I think musically, if you talk to (drummer) Matt Chamberlain, he'll tell you it's really complicated...
TORI AMOS

I grew up in dirt-poor hillbilly country. We lived this dry-below-the-waist kind of scene. If you we...
TORI AMOS Understanding where your food comes from, trying to bolster local farmers and local economies and ha...
AMOS LEE

Many cities make music, but no city breathes music quite like Memphis. The songs and sounds that com...
SHAWN AMOS

I'm too wacky for most weirdos. Who am I to judge?
TORI AMOS

Girls you've gotta know when it's time to turn the page.
TORI AMOS

It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's impor...
WALLY AMOS

When it's all said and done we will lose a piece to a carnivorous vegetarian
TORI AMOS

Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and no...
TORI AMOS

Despite all of our technological advances, content creation still requires time, inspiration, and a ...
SHAWN AMOS

Just as many people flee Hollywood as those who flock to it. Hollywood can be an acquired taste.
SHAWN AMOS

I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little thi...
TORI AMOS

If you think a child is going to be your accessory... it's not like a micro pig. It's not ab...
TORI AMOS

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.
TORI AMOS

Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they're little.
TORI AMOS

Being stylish is about enjoying your life and expressing yourself and your inner light.
TORI AMOS

I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.
TORI AMOS

If you're going to write an anthem for an old man who's up at political bat for the last tim...
SHAWN AMOS

Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me...
TORI AMOS

We're all posting and clicking and sharing, but we're not devoting enough attention to get a...
SHAWN AMOS

So the first job that I got - my father got it for me - he had his clerical collar on, was a gay bar...
TORI AMOS

I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded ...
TORI AMOS

My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, bei...
TORI AMOS [The Patriots] are envied by a lot of teams around the league. I'm just happy to be here.
AMOS ZEREOUE I've basically been trying to get the plays down and my conditioning up at the same time. Just being...
AMOS ZEREOUE I felt I was ready last week. It's just a matter of getting an opportunity to get out there. After t...
AMOS ZEREOUE I know Kevin really well,
AMOS ZEREOUE I can't go on what happened last year. This is a new year. I have to go out there and prove I can be...
AMOS ZEREOUE I know I can play ball. It's just a matter of me getting to do it here or someone else.
AMOS ZEREOUE I thought that way last year before the season started. I feel the same way now,
AMOS ZEREOUE Egypt is a big country which claims to respect the agreements it signs,
AMOS GILAD It is inconceivable that Egypt as a sovereign country does not control its border.
AMOS GILAD Egypt ... has to impose down to the smallest detail a regime of security ... to stop smuggling, to s...
AMOS GILAD They look like they're running a system which has neither law nor order, neither organization nor au...
AMOS GILAD But if he is on the brink of extinction, he certainly may take suicidal steps involving the launchin...
AMOS GILAD The Palestinian Authority is facing a supreme test of its credibility.
AMOS GILAD That may cause difficulties for the Palestinians, but the priority is to ensure Israeli security.
AMOS GILAD This infrastructure is murderous and we will try to deal with it and silence it.
AMOS GILAD The key is with the Palestinian Authority that must impose law and order ... That is the basis that ...
AMOS GILAD There are terrorists whose names ... we pass (to the PA) time and again, who want to launch ... terr...
AMOS GILAD Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
AMOS ALCOTT Many can argue; not many converse
AMOS ALCOTT Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking ...
AMOS ALCOTT Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
AMOS ALCOTT We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were success...
AMOS ALCOTT That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.
AMOS ALCOTT That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
AMOS ALCOTT To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
AMOS ALCOTT One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
AMOS ALCOTT The less routine the more life.
AMOS ALCOTT

The rise of digital technology put marketers in a bind. No longer a captive audience, consumers were...
SHAWN AMOS

I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom&#...
TORI AMOS

Depending on your political orientation, the Dixie Chicks are either the great defenders of free spe...
SHAWN AMOS I didn't know how to react to it, it was very difficult. The most difficult part is that I think I'm...
AMOS ZEREOUE

At the height of his popularity in 1977, Cat Stevens converted to Islam and dedicated his life to ed...
SHAWN AMOS Across the board, from my mother to my father to my aunts and uncles, everybody has always given me ...
AMOS LEE

Tori's my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my mi...
TORI AMOS

I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean I'm a girl that likes the storms....
TORI AMOS

I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory o...
TORI AMOS

In Los Angeles, parenting is a competitive sport. From Beverly Hills baby boutiques to kids' yog...
SHAWN AMOS

Cornwall is one of the most beautiful places, with great people - there's not a great downside t...
TORI AMOS

I think all the boys that write the screaming stuff would write the best love songs.... because they...
TORI AMOS

Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have t...
TORI AMOS

There was a time when a musician was forced to act in a video. Seeing a singer step too far outside ...
SHAWN AMOS

Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you h...
TORI AMOS

There is an energy that you carry when you're nurturing another life where you're protecting...
TORI AMOS

In my early performing days, I played gigs under the pseudonym Whitey McFearsun. I painted my face b...
SHAWN AMOS

So, you can make me come, that doesn't make you Jesus.
TORI AMOS

I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep int...
TORI AMOS

Long before Wesley Snipes decided he didn't need to pay the IRS, Willie Nelson was dodging the t...
SHAWN AMOS

The Woodstock dove on the iconic poster is really a catbird. And it was originally perched on a flut...
SHAWN AMOS

It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it&#...
TORI AMOS They killed my character off and as God would have it, just when they told me I would never work aga...
JOHN AMOS It was an ongoing struggle to say no, I don't want to be a part of the perpetuation of this stereoty...
JOHN AMOS I could have begged. They made it obvious to me that if I wanted to come back and be a good boy... b...
JOHN AMOS We need to protect the resources and livelihoods, not just the ones we have today, but in the future...
JOHN AMOS I've never seen oil slicks covering such a large area in the Gulf of Mexico.
JOHN AMOS I have rededicated myself to my procession as a way of honoring him.
JOHN AMOS This is the highest tribute we can pay him, our appreciation for his superlative writing, his incomp...
JOHN AMOS I like down-to-earth people.
AMOS LEE

In the '60s, my father, Wally Amos, had been a talent agent and a personal manager before taking...
SHAWN AMOS

A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.

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A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.

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