Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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'Shameless' was such a weird time in my life because I never really experienced any kind of role that put me that much in the spotlight before.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'
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There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
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I'm just going to have fun. Maybe that will be the most important thing to do.
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Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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The bearings of this observation lays in the application on it.
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Everybody gets to a stage when it's time to move on. I was bored, and the band wasn't going anywhere, so I left. I did a couple of shows on Broadway and some other things. I was busy. I just wasn't making records.
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I don't think we listened to any rock n' roll at all in the early days. It was Miles Davis and John Coltrane 95% of the time.
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Harry, talking about the doctor who came to the ward and then went away. 'That guy has a thing about potato chips and hot dogs. If God didn't want us to eat salt and fat, why did He make them taste so good?'
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
