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Ofra Haza

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last updated: November 28, 2023

“I don't know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don't cry. I say maybe it's meant to be.”
-- Ofra Haza

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

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“Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I donâ€™t cry. I say maybe itâ€™s meant to be.”
-- Ofra Haza

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“My childhood was filled with music and singing and a passion for traditional Yemenite songs, picked up from my mother.”
-- Ofra Haza

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“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
“The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.”
“Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.”

Source : Quoted in Sports Illustrated, 17 Apr. 1989
“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
“We respect the role of the Senate. We respect the authority of the Senate to look at the qualifications of Judge Roberts, and at the end of the day I'm optimistic that if given a fair hearing and a fair opportunity, that he will be confirmed.”
“A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.”
“The planet is ill, everyone knows that. But I need to be optimistic, otherwise I would just be adding to the negativity. So every night I come on Madrid TV and read a piece of good news.”
“The Lord has different names according to His different activities. For example, His name is MadhusÃ¼dana because He killed the demon of the name Madhu; His name is Govinda because He gives pleasure to the cows and to the senses”
“Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.”
“I love it when the Bible gives Emily Post-like tips that are both wise and easy to follow.”

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