Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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I moved to New York when I was 21 and worked between 40 and 70 hours a week. Then I invested it all. It was really just a hustle. But I was kind of raised to work like that, so to me, it seemed very normal and natural.
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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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We have the ability to manifest our thoughts: to actually say something and express what our feelings are. That, then, transforms the world and puts something into action.
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Going to a major tournament, having that buzz - it's hard to put into words. It's a dream to go there, and to play. It's the biggest thing you can achieve in your career, and to go again would be a dream.
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I'm a very self-conscious person.
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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
