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...Fridtjof Nansen
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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.
Zubin Mehta -
I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
Karen Elson -
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.
Ed Westwick -
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.
J. J. Watt -
One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
Ed Belfour -
I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.
Dan Scanlon
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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.
Ram Dass -
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.
Edmund Phelps -
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.
Sally Field -
When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'
Rachel Cohn -
Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
Warren Buffett -
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.
Wallace Shawn
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I love reading books that can break my heart.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
Orlando Bloom -
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.
Barack Obama -
You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.
Felix Dennis -
Anytime something eats too much of my life, I kill it.
Paige Craig -
I had to fight like hell to convince people I was beautiful in my own Polish half-breed way.
Janice Dickinson
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As a songwriter, I go into the studio, and I just try to write a great song.
Luis Fonsi -
Nancy Reagan would just run up to these kids [with really painful disabilities and deformities] and hold them and pick them up... because I think she felt so judged all the time and she felt so unlovable.
Cynthia Nixon -
I tried golf for a while, but I wasn't very good at it, so I didn't play a lot of golf. I enjoy all sports, not just football. I like basketball, baseball, and I got into the World Cup. So really, sports in general are my life, and football specifically.
John Madden -
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...
Fridtjof Nansen