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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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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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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I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.
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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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I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea.
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Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.
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Donald Trump is the grandson of German immigrants. Don't worry. The last time a German guy with crazy hair took over a country, everything turned out fine.
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Grow up. Grow up. Time to grow up. You’re here now. We’re working on physics here, not religion. Drop the mysticism and grow up.
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The best gifts in life will never be found under a Christmas tree, those gifts are friends, family, children and the one you love.
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Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest, pound-for-pound, ever. He fought most of his career with just one loss, and that was to me. He had 131 fights with one loss.
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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...
