Marit Bjorgen Quotes
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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I think, living in the city, it's so easy to forget that you're attached to the earth.
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People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing.
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I exercise every morning. I do light weights - 5lb and 10lb arm exercises - and then lie and lift my arms and legs. It's all about keeping core strength. I do a lot of stretching too.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
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I still have a young attitude.
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I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
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I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent.
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I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
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The Premier League is very difficult football and very different to when you play in Europe, but the player has to have experience to adapt, and this is the key point.
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Listen, if there's anything we need more of in this world, it's something that has a better ending or is more positive.
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There's no telling how many guns we have in America - and when one gets used in a crime, no way for the cops to connect it to its owner. The only place the police can turn for help is a Kafkaesque agency in West Virginia, where, thanks to the gun lobby, computers are illegal and detective work is absurdly antiquated.
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The tendency to regard continuity, in the sense in which I shall define it, as an idea of prime importance in philosophy conveniently may be be termed synechism. The present paper is intended chiefly to show what synechism is, and what it leads to.
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We always want more, more, more. You see good work; you want it better. We push, push, push.
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Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.
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I want to come back in 2017 if things work well.
