Quotes About Kibbutz

#1. 'Creative Commons' is the self-congratulatory name of a self-congratulatory movement. Somewhat like kibbutz on the Internet, the idea is to write programs - 'free ware' - and distribute them without charge.

Mark Helprin

#2. I grew up in a kibbutz in the Galilee, but we were surrounded by Arabic villages, so I heard all these sounds and all this music. My father was very close friends with one of the Bedouin tribes, so I would always go there, to weddings, and I was always very fascinated by that music.

Maya Beiser

#3. The kibbutz way of life is not for everyone. It is meant for people who are not in the business of working harder than they should be working, in order to make more money than they need, in order to buy things they don't really want, in order to impress people they don't really like.

Amos Oz

#4. I went to live on a kibbutz, and I'd idealized the world of collective, agrarian work, where everyone was equal, everyone contributed, that all this awful European intellectual stuff just fell away.

Tony Judt

#5. I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident.

Maeve Binchy

#6. A moshav is a cooperative community of individual farms, which is different from a kibbutz." "Very

Daniel Silva

#7. At the end, the key thing is you've got to live with yourself. That's the real test. Everything else is fleeting.

Nicolas Berggruen

#8. Positive stress, negative stress, - stress no less. It's all in how you manage your energies.

Jo-Ann L. Tremblay

#9. I think photography is closest to writing, not painting. It's closest to writing because you are using this machine to convey an idea. The image shouldn't need a caption; it should already convey an idea.

Mary Ellen Mark

#10. The voluntary relinquishing of responsibility for our lives and our actions is one of the greatest enemies of our time.

Genesis P-Orridge

#11. The prototypic Don Juan, invented early in the XVI century by a Spanish monk, was

George Bernard Shaw

#12. and the bananas are overdone.

Simone Elkeles

#13. A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.

Jules Verne

#14. Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.

Cameron Diaz