The Oz
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The Oz
oz. is a common abbreviation for the ounce. Oz or OZ may also refer to:...
health sleep night
At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you're not in the right place where you need to be, then you're going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues.
tombstone heart numbers
I've always felt that, when I looked at my tombstone, it shouldn't say, 'Mehmet Oz banged out 10,000 open-heart operations.' I've probably done 5,000. Am I any better at it than 10,000? He shook his head. It's just a different number on the tombstone.
weight disposition feels
I feel differently immediately when I start to put weight on. I don't like that sluggish, blunted disposition that I have when that happens.
fanaticism far headlines militancy novel people precisely
But The Same Sea is set precisely in this Israel, which never makes it to the news headlines anywhere. It is a novel about everyday people far removed from fundamentalism, fanaticism nationalism, or militancy of any sort.
democracy novel
All of my novels are democracies.
live-life exclamation-points living-my-life
Fundamentalist s live life with an exclamation point. I prefer to live my life with a question mark.
tragedy definitions clash
Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right.
loneliness self hands
… that sour blend of loneliness and lust for recognition, shyness and extravagance, deep insecurity and self-intoxicated egomania, that drives poets and writers out of their rooms to seek each other out, to rub shoulders with one another, bully, joke, condescend, feel each other, lay a hand on a shoulder or an arm round a waist, to chat and argue with little nudges, to spy a little, sniff out what is cooking in other pots, flatter, disagree, collude, be right, take offence, apologise, make amends, avoid each other, and seek each other’s company again.
falling-in-love jealous volcanoes
I wrote a novel about Israelis who live their own lives on the slope of a volcano. Near a volcano one still falls in love, one still gets jealous, one still wants a promotion, one still gossips.
party gaps labor
The actual gap between Labor, Likud and the new central party is microscopic.
tiny born lows
I was born and bred in a tiny, low-ceilinged ground-floor apartment.
traitor ifs diets
If you change your diet, someone will call you a traitor.
parent scales western
On my parents scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.
drown food junk overall whining
My parents always wanted me to know why eating healthfully was important to overall performance, probably to drown out my whining for junk food.