#la

Look, we have existed for 4,000 years - 2,000 years in diaspora, in exile. Nobody in the Middle East speaks their original language but Israel. When we started 64 years ago, we were 650,000 people. So, you know, we are maybe swimming a little bit against the stream, but we continue to swim. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#ago #bit #continue #east #exile

The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and - the most virulent cause of all - the absence of freedom. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#against #cause #discrimination #east #educational

There is in England a saying that an anti-Semite is someone who hates the Jews more than is necessary. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#hates #jews #more #necessary #saying

There was one occasion when I was very young - eight years or seven years old - that Jewish businessmen went through the forest, and they were assassinated. And that was for the first time I saw in our paper where there were assassinations in our place. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#assassinations #businessmen #eight #first #first time

We asked the workers to give up 25 percent of their salaries. Imagine! We asked the industrialists to freeze all costs, no matter what the inflation is. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#costs #freeze #give #imagine #industrialists

What should be the future of Israel? Is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to keep the whole of the land at any cost, or to have a partition and build the Jewish state on part of the land? And the other part? ↗

— Shimon Peres

#build #choice #cost #future #important

As far as a Latin explosion, I'm sorry, I'm the only Latino who's going to say it, but there is no Latin explosion. I'm sorry. Four or five top box office people do not make it an explosion, and it's disgusting to me that people will perceive it that way. ↗

— Rosie Perez

#box #box office #disgusting #explosion #far

Certain people who care about me a lot have said 'You don't play the game, and if you don't play the game, you don't get picked for the team all the time. ↗

— Rosie Perez

#care #certain #game #get #lot

I am a positive person. I never think of the glass as half empty. I just keep pushing forward. ↗

— Rosie Perez

#empty #forward #glass #half #i

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones. ↗

— Pericles

#fishes #great #great ones #land #little