Fridtjof Nansen Quotes
Let me tell you the secret of such so-called successes as there have been in my life, and here I believe I give you really good advice. It was to burn my boats and demolish my bridges behind me. Then one loses no time in looking behind, when one should have quite enough to do in looking ahead...
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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I obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and energy. And she deserves to be treated like a princess because that's how you should treat your girls. And if I can't give them that time and that devotion because of my dedication to football, then I don't feel like I should almost waste their time.
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One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
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I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.
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In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.
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When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'
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Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
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When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.
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I love reading books that can break my heart.
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Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
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We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page.
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You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.
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Anytime something eats too much of my life, I kill it.
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I hope to be painting more and travelling. Maybe fall in love. Have a dog one day. You know, all the good things.
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My story sort of sounds ridiculous because the first movie I produced was 'E.T.'
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And I was very comfortable with this band even when we disagreed. It takes a long time to feel comfortable enough to disagree with somebody. When everything happened, it just was really confusing. It's like our weaknesses were nurtured and brought out front by outsiders.
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Hollywood large is so different than real-life large.
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There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
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Let me tell you the secret of such so-called successes as there have been in my life, and here I believe I give you really good advice. It was to burn my boats and demolish my bridges behind me. Then one loses no time in looking behind, when one should have quite enough to do in looking ahead...
