Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.
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The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
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We all got driven out of Manhattan. It was a very conducive place for artists when I was growing up, and now it's definitely not. The city has been completely taken over by the rich.
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I've got nothing very original to say myself.
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Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
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I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
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Ricky Martin is one of the artists I wanted to be growing up.
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When I sing, people shut up.
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I wrote 'Criminal' in 45 minutes when everyone else went to lunch because I had to have a hit. I can force myself to do the work, but only if someone is right up behind me.
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There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.
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After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
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I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.
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I'm a really heavy sleeper. When I wake up I'm a terrible morning person.
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The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
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You see bands putting ads in the paper: 'drummer wanted'. I could never be in a set-up like that.
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I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.
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I feel that I've got the opportunity to set a great role model for girls to look up to a strong, active, compassionate, loving, positive woman, and I think it's so important.
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We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.
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My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.
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I have no intention of flattering people. I like wrinkles and crow's feet and flaws, and somebody should know, if I'm going to photograph them, that's going to show up, you know?
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The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person, and with the innermost nature of human feeling.
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Rationalism doesn’t require 'belief,' only observation. The real, measurable world doesn’t care what you believe.
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Most people understand the need for neutrality. The real struggle is not between the right and the left - that's where most people assume - but it's between the party of the thoughtful and the party of the jerks. And no side of the political spectrum has a monopoly on either of those qualities.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
