Dag Hammarskjold Quotes

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

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• We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.

  

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• Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.

  

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• Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.

  

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• To tell you the truth, I hadn't seen any Pixar until I went to see 'Wall-E,' and I watched it and I was shocked to see how adult it was, with the setting in our lives, both present and future, and how they dealt with it... And then quite relieved to find that the one I was working on, 'Up,' how adult it was.

  

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• I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voice.

  

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• My whole outlook on life is, never judge a book by its cover.

  

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• When you write and direct your own film, you basically know exactly what you want. Or you hope to. For the studio, it actually can make life a little easier, because if you have a bunch of questions, they only need to call one person.

  

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• So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

  

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• All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.

  

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• There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.

  

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• I have a really, really great girl in my life right now.

  

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• There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that's just a fact.

  

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• Any time something goes wrong, Republicans pick on women and minorities.

  

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• Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
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